Rev 127 - Feb 22-Mar 12, 2010 - Rhea R2 and Helene

Rev 127 - Feb 22-Mar 12, 2010 - Rhea R2 and Helene, Also distant Iapetus

elakdawalla View Member Profile	Feb 20 2010, 04:29 AM Post #1
Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454	Holy moly are these back-to-back flybys of Rhea and Helene going to ROCK!!!! Jason's Rev 127 looking ahead article has all the details. Wispy terrain high-res mosaic -- close look at putative impact sites of former ring particles -- MIMI attempt to confirm presence of Rhea ring -- Imaging of pretty much all of Helene using Saturnshine to illuminate sub-Saturn hemisphere on approach, sunshine on anti-Saturn hemisphere on departure -- departure shots will be against Saturn as a backdrop -- C/A shots will use skeet shoot technique derived for Encelauds -- etc. etc. -- I can't wait!! Thanks Jason for the preview!!! -------------------- My website - My Patreon - @elakdawalla on Twitter - Please support unmannedspaceflight.com by donating here.

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Ian R

Mar 8 2010, 01:42 AM

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Very nice work indeed, Machi.

Here's my attempt to link together all of the medium-resolution views of this moon, using some of its more prominent surface features:

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elakdawalla Rev 127 - Feb 22-Mar 12, 2010 - Rhea R2 and Helene Feb 20 2010, 04:29 AM

volcanopele The CICLOPS Looking Ahead article for Rev127 (Febr... Feb 20 2010, 04:33 AM

jasedm I'm loving the ring-plane orbits with all thes... Feb 21 2010, 08:28 AM

TritonAntares Hi, just to mentioned: QUOTE Cassini's ISS ca... Feb 21 2010, 11:23 AM

TritonAntares So, about 75 images are online. Here a quickout: ... Feb 25 2010, 10:53 PM

Adam Hurcewicz QUOTE (TritonAntares @ Feb 25 2010, 11:53... Feb 26 2010, 12:54 AM

Floyd I think not. A search of the SM-7_all.doc (posted ... Feb 21 2010, 02:15 PM

belleraphon1 Looking forward to this one as well. If Helene i... Feb 23 2010, 01:06 AM

tasp Do we get some close ups of the intriguing equator... Feb 23 2010, 03:38 AM

DrShank here are some nice perspective views of Rhea, targ... Feb 25 2010, 06:31 PM

Floyd Hi Adam, Tried your link, but I can't get it t... Feb 26 2010, 01:39 AM

Adam Hurcewicz QUOTE (Floyd @ Feb 26 2010, 02:39 AM) Hi ... Feb 26 2010, 01:47 AM

Elias I am not sure if MIMI data can confirm the disk/ri... Feb 26 2010, 05:40 PM

DrShank QUOTE (Elias @ Feb 26 2010, 11:40 AM) I a... Feb 26 2010, 06:45 PM

Elias QUOTE (DrShank @ Feb 26 2010, 07:45 PM) i... Feb 26 2010, 09:20 PM

DrShank QUOTE (Elias @ Feb 26 2010, 03:20 PM) But... Feb 26 2010, 09:34 PM

ugordan QUOTE (DrShank @ Feb 26 2010, 10:34 PM) o... Feb 26 2010, 09:39 PM

Elias QUOTE (DrShank @ Feb 26 2010, 10:34 PM) y... Mar 2 2010, 02:19 PM

jasedm QUOTE (Elias @ Feb 26 2010, 05:40 PM) I a... Feb 27 2010, 05:20 PM

Hungry4info Quick, dirty gif of a mutual event with Dione and ... Feb 28 2010, 02:27 PM

volcanopele QUOTE (Hungry4info @ Feb 28 2010, 07:27 A... Feb 28 2010, 08:57 PM

ugordan Enceladus, plume and rings, RGB: Mar 2 2010, 10:04 PM

tasp I am not sure if this would be compression artifac... Mar 2 2010, 04:22 PM

peter59 Interesting JPL blog with a fantastic movie made b... Mar 2 2010, 05:14 PM

volcanopele Animation of Helene flyby just uploaded to youtube... Mar 3 2010, 09:37 AM

ugordan Rhea images have started coming down: http://satur... Mar 3 2010, 10:20 AM

Sunspot QUOTE (ugordan @ Mar 3 2010, 10:20 AM) Rh... Mar 3 2010, 01:41 PM

ugordan No, it's a real crack. Mar 3 2010, 01:54 PM

Astro0 Handstitched mosaic of Rhea. Image sequence N00152... Mar 3 2010, 01:28 PM

Ian R Here's a global colour view of Rhea (IR-GR-VIO... Mar 3 2010, 01:32 PM

Hungry4info Really neat images! Mar 3 2010, 02:50 PM

Exploitcorporations First Helene images arriving: Saturnshine Mar 3 2010, 08:09 PM

Sunspot Looks like the pointing is off Mar 3 2010, 08:20 PM

ugordan QUOTE (Sunspot @ Mar 3 2010, 09:20 PM) Lo... Mar 3 2010, 08:27 PM

volcanopele QUOTE (Sunspot @ Mar 3 2010, 01:20 PM) Lo... Mar 3 2010, 08:36 PM

Bjorn Jonsson Well, Helene's surface certainly appears smoot... Mar 3 2010, 08:21 PM

Ian R Helene in Saturn-shine: Mar 3 2010, 08:29 PM

Ian R I guess this will be the highest resolution view o... Mar 3 2010, 08:43 PM

Exploitcorporations I imagine that some careful compositing, a la Temp... Mar 3 2010, 09:06 PM

ugordan Looks to me there's too much rotation to pull ... Mar 3 2010, 09:07 PM

volcanopele Nope this beats it: http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/ph... Mar 3 2010, 08:56 PM

Phil Stooke Cripes - now we've got gullies on Helene... P... Mar 3 2010, 09:11 PM

volcanopele Phil, that sent a chuckle among the HiRISE people ... Mar 3 2010, 09:53 PM

jasedm It just shows the standard we've come to expec... Mar 3 2010, 10:06 PM

ngunn Have we had all the Rhea images now, and if so has... Mar 3 2010, 10:17 PM

volcanopele Well, the issue might have been not so much the po... Mar 3 2010, 10:19 PM

AndyG QUOTE (volcanopele @ Mar 3 2010, 10:19 PM... Mar 3 2010, 10:23 PM

ngunn QUOTE (AndyG @ Mar 3 2010, 10:23 PM) When... Mar 3 2010, 10:52 PM

Frank Crary QUOTE (ngunn @ Mar 3 2010, 10:52 PM) QUOT... Mar 4 2010, 07:52 PM

NickF QUOTE (volcanopele @ Mar 3 2010, 10:19 PM... Mar 3 2010, 10:54 PM

jasedm One of the better global raws, rotated so the lar... Mar 3 2010, 10:21 PM

volcanopele QUOTE (jasedm @ Mar 3 2010, 03:21 PM) One... Mar 3 2010, 10:39 PM

jasedm Ah yes, you're right, I overlooked the rim of ... Mar 3 2010, 10:45 PM

machi Darkside of Helene. Combination from five raw imag... Mar 4 2010, 10:57 AM

stevesliva Nice machi! You brought out some gullies/stre... Mar 4 2010, 05:25 PM

ngunn Welcome to UMSF Frank. Mar 4 2010, 09:59 PM

Ian R In this montage, the two views to the right are wi... Mar 5 2010, 01:53 AM

machi Nice montage Ian R! I send another two views ... Mar 7 2010, 03:58 PM

machi And third image. It's a combination from 13 i... Mar 7 2010, 04:28 PM

alan Lots of linear features on the crater rim, the res... Mar 7 2010, 04:51 PM

Ian R Very nice work indeed, Machi. Here's my att... Mar 8 2010, 01:42 AM

Ian R Here's another attempt of making sense of the ... Mar 11 2010, 01:05 AM

elakdawalla This is really awesome. One thing that I think wo... Mar 11 2010, 02:08 AM

machi I always love images of this kind! Mar 11 2010, 10:26 AM

Ian R Glad you got a kick out of my little experiment Em... Mar 11 2010, 11:36 AM

tasp Fascinating how Helene can probe the mass ratio of... Mar 11 2010, 02:37 PM

jasedm Just wanted to add to the chorus of approval of yo... Mar 11 2010, 08:46 PM

belleraphon1 Rhea encounter... " At a science meeting Fri... Mar 15 2010, 10:11 PM

Antdoghalo QUOTE (belleraphon1 @ Mar 15 2010, 06:11 ... Mar 16 2010, 01:56 AM

ugordan QUOTE (belleraphon1 @ Mar 15 2010, 11:11 ... Mar 16 2010, 09:11 AM

nprev It sounds interesting all right, but don't get... Mar 16 2010, 02:00 AM

Juramike I think Rhea has been underappreciated. I'm l... Mar 16 2010, 02:50 AM

tasp Evidently, Cassini did not impact anything too big... Mar 16 2010, 01:54 PM

Ian R I notice that the best narrow-angle shot of Helene... Sep 23 2010, 11:49 AM

Ian R Of minor interest, I'm sure, is a video of the... Sep 30 2010, 02:42 PM

Phil Stooke Very nice - thanks! Phil Sep 30 2010, 07:27 PM

Hungry4info An oxygen-carbon dioxide atmosphere has been obser... Nov 26 2010, 03:04 AM

nprev At least the comments are (mostly) quite properly ... Nov 26 2010, 03:28 AM

centsworth_II QUOTE (nprev @ Nov 25 2010, 10:28 PM) At ... Nov 26 2010, 01:17 PM

belleraphon1 Deep breathes, nprev, deep breathes...... just don... Nov 26 2010, 12:03 PM

nprev Grr. (I'm cool, Craig, I'm cool!) Arti... Nov 26 2010, 06:02 PM

Hungry4info Dropping the S/N for a sec for an artistic interpr... Nov 27 2010, 05:11 PM

Elias QUOTE (Hungry4info @ Nov 27 2010, 07:11 P... Nov 29 2010, 10:36 PM

Paolo the discovery of Rhea's "atmosphere... Dec 23 2010, 08:04 PM

Juramike Image of Helene from March 3, 2010 flyby using ... Jun 1 2011, 03:46 AM

nprev That's an "oooo!!!" That... Jun 1 2011, 03:59 AM

AndyG And I can't help but add "groovy". Jun 1 2011, 10:52 AM

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