Congratulations to ugordan for having his Mercury mosaic featured on Phil Plait's "Bad Astronomy" blog today! Well deserved!

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastro...beautiful-face/

*picks jaw back up* wow!

Extremely well-deserved, Gordan. That image is my work computer desktop so I can explore it during slow moments!

Massive congratulations to Bjorn for getting his Voyager mosaic as a Planetary Photojournal image!!!

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA14412

That Mercury composite is indeed amazing!

Congratulations to ugordan for having his absolutely gorgeous Enceladus pic featured on APOD today...!

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod

Thanks, Stu. If you like that one, you'll love Ian's mosaic from the same encounter as well. Shows the entire south polar region whereas in my single frame composite it was out of the frame...

Well-deserved congrats, and a Q: in these pics, it looks like some of those ridges in the center of the image are raised, but that couldn't be true, could it? I have this problem all the time looking at images of craters, wonder if there's a 'smarter' way to perceive them?

Rearrange the lighting in your room so it's coming from roughly the same direction as the illumination in the image you're viewing. This helps the brain to make the right assumption.

However those Saturn-lit features in the center of the disk *are* raised- they really are ridges. Bob Pappalardo et al. have suggested that they result from thrust faulting.

John

Congratulations to Ian for his glorious animation of Lutetia, which is today's APOD
(but for unknown reason is my name under it, I suppose, that this error is based on changing names mentioned in Emily's blog article).

Simply magnificent - congrats to Ian (and machi!) who are both unfailingly reliable in terms of turning raw data into fantastic images/movies for our delectation within 48 hours of any significant encounter - thanks both!