Neat composite.

Btw, that's Janus, not Rhea. here is the celestia sim from that frame time:

Full version of the North polar region of Saturn on August 12, 2009.

A second set of images was combined....had to do some serious warping to match these up due to changing perspective due to spacecraft motion, and cloud rotation.

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(The seam cuts right through the big "Cheerio" cloud near the terminator.)

One question based on images like that one:

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA08388.jpg

The northern hemisphere atmosphere shows much more structure than the southern hemisphere one: is this an optical effect due to the different illumination conditions, or is it a real difference?

Another attempt at the same North Polar composite image:
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This is also a HiPass-LRGB composite with the L component coming from the RED (CL1 RED Cassini Raw image) channel.
(Turns out IR3 cloud patterns don't match well with RGB due to spacecraft motion/cloud rotation)

Each filtered image was stretched before stuffing into the corresponding channel:
[R(10-245); G(10-225); B(10-160).

And of course, infinite fiddling to try to match previous pretty images.

Noway would I call this even close to what you'd see with a spacesuited eye. But I think it's closer than my first attempt.

I really like abstract images such as this:
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I have to admit, this one is quite beautiful:

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/photos/raw/rawi...?imageID=199256

a crescent Saturn with two crescent moons.

Another beaut today!
Shadows big and small

Earlier this week I was stretching my legs outside my office and was looking along a concrete footpath that runs north/south, on it were cast long shadows of grass stalks made by the low morning sun. It reminded me of the rings of Saturn.

Composite image of Saturn's ring assembled from raw images: