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 Dec 30 2009, 05:46 AM
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Raw images from the T64 Titan encounter are now up on the Cassini web site. This interesting flyby is described in Ciclops looking ahead here: http://ciclops.org/view/6082/Rev123
Some nice ISS images from the outbound montage of the Adiri region are shown below.
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Jan 4 2010, 08:10 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 718 Joined: 1-April 08 From: Minnesota ! Member No.: 4081 |
Hmm … wouldn’t cloud motion East to West be unexpected given the motion of past mid-southern latitude clouds and the super-rotating atmosphere from W to E. Clouds elongate W to E along latitude lines and tend to dissipate over hours to days. Spacecraft motion, distance and viewing geometry of clouds vs surface features should be factored in as Titan’s rotation rate is relatively slow (I calculated 42.3 km/hr at the equator) compared to Cassini’s velocity. In the image below (using the same CL1 CB3 images as Juramike above), blue arrows point to the edge of the more northerly cloud which may moving a little south but which ends still close to the 280W longitude line and may be dissipating; in contrast a cloud blob (red arrows) closer to 50 latitude appears to have elongated to the east between 12/30 and 12/31.
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titanicrivers T64 flyby Dec 30 2009, 05:46 AM
titanicrivers T64 also included a passage over Titan's North... Dec 30 2009, 10:18 AM Decepticon As exciting as this is, I don't expect to see ... Dec 30 2009, 06:58 PM
Sunspot QUOTE (Decepticon @ Dec 30 2009, 06:58 PM... Dec 30 2009, 07:25 PM volcanopele Yeah, I wouldn't put too much stock in that ma... Dec 30 2009, 08:23 PM Juramike There's a hint of structure in the South polar... Dec 31 2009, 05:07 PM titanicrivers QUOTE (Juramike @ Dec 31 2009, 11:07 AM) ... Jan 1 2010, 09:23 PM titanicrivers An interesting image Mike. Wonder if its the star... Dec 31 2009, 11:27 PM Juramike Here a Methan-o-Vision composite of the T64 flyby ... Jan 2 2010, 04:18 AM Juramike New images recieved today. Here is a two-frame an... Jan 2 2010, 10:29 PM ngunn Interesting - there almost seems to be an elliptic... Jan 2 2010, 11:17 PM Juramike I'm wondering if it's more of a downdraft ... Jan 3 2010, 12:18 AM Hungry4info Some Saturnshine observations of Titan.
http://sat... Jan 3 2010, 01:03 AM OWW Groovy Hills Rising from Titan Surface Jan 25 2010, 06:54 PM ngunn Fantastic - a new terrain type on the 65th flyby... Jan 25 2010, 07:16 PM stevesliva Reminds me of Arches National Park. Erosional fin... Jan 25 2010, 09:34 PM ngunn Here's the nearest thing I can find:
http://e... Jan 25 2010, 09:47 PM Juramike That's neat! Where is it? Jan 25 2010, 09:50 PM Hungry4info Taking a wild stab here, Salt Dome in the Zagros M... Jan 25 2010, 09:53 PM ngunn I've just edited the post to give the full con... Jan 25 2010, 09:54 PM stevesliva Arches NP is over a salt formation as well:
Fiery ... Jan 25 2010, 10:11 PM ngunn QUOTE (stevesliva @ Jan 25 2010, 10:11 PM... Jan 25 2010, 10:35 PM stevesliva One thing you don't get from the pretty pictur... Jan 25 2010, 11:21 PM Juramike That patch of bright ridges in the lower left is r... Jan 26 2010, 12:36 AM titanicrivers Approximate location of T64 swath and PIA12496 ima... Jan 26 2010, 08:34 AM ngunn I note that this location is pretty close to the s... Jan 26 2010, 03:41 PM titanicrivers Using the coordinates and size of PIA12496 I’ve tr... Jan 29 2010, 07:30 AM peter59 T64 swath.
Oct 1 2010, 05:37 PM elakdawalla Oooh that must mean the Cassini PDS release is out... Oct 1 2010, 05:42 PM ngunn QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Oct 1 2010, 06:42 PM... Oct 1 2010, 06:42 PM titanicrivers QUOTE (ngunn @ Oct 1 2010, 01:42 PM) It w... Oct 11 2010, 10:11 AM peter59
I do not know what is what, except SAR Main swath... Oct 1 2010, 06:28 PM sariondil QUOTE Would you be able to post a full-res chunk f... Oct 1 2010, 07:11 PM ngunn That is excellent - exactly what I was hoping for.... Oct 11 2010, 11:01 AM Stu Looking forward to seeing what our image mages mak... Oct 14 2010, 10:28 PM Astro0 Hey Stu, I made this! Does that count?!
Oct 14 2010, 10:42 PM Stu Look out, Rorschach has made it to Titan...! Oct 14 2010, 10:47 PM Juramike HiPassLRGB using HiPass UV3; L = UV3; RGB[RED,GRN,... Oct 15 2010, 12:29 AM titanicrivers Beautiful image Mike. Astro0's creation remin... Oct 15 2010, 02:34 AM |
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