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elakdawalla
That's not Prometheus, that's a beating heart ohmy.gif
dilo
Color composition from images N00150201/202/203 (respectively clean, Red and Blue filters); on the right weak illumination is enhanced.
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helvick
I need a new word, Awesome just doesn't cut it anymore. Out of curiosity have there been any other examples of ring shadows on Moons captured before?
volcanopele
QUOTE (helvick @ Jan 28 2010, 02:00 PM) *
I need a new word, Awesome just doesn't cut it anymore. Out of curiosity have there been any other examples of ring shadows on Moons captured before?

http://ciclops.org/view/5818/Ring_Shadows_on_Janus
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA10469
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/imgcat/html/obj...g1_3494245.html
elakdawalla
Tremendous. And yes ring shadows have been seen on moons before, both by Cassini and Voyager.
http://www.planetary.org/blog/article/00002078/
Ian R
Epimetheus as seen by Voyager 1:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Epimetheus_moon.jpg

Janus as seen by Cassini:

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA11694
Patteroast
Yay! Glad to be getting really good views of Prometheus finally. It seems to be the last of the bigger rocks that needed it.

The Aegaeon images definitely seem to show some shape. Elongated, but then again they all are. laugh.gif

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/photos/raw/rawi...?imageID=211946

(Edit: D'oh, I see now that Aegaeon's been discussed in the Cassini Raws thread already.)
dilo
An "extended color" composition from N00150212+214+215 (filters G, IR3 and UV respectively).
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Ring shadow colors are probably a timing artifact...
Ian R
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA12593

Here's a normal and enhanced version of the newly released image:

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machi
Prometheus flyby animation.
Timewarp 200×.
machi
Another animation of the "space potato" Prometheus from three images (+9 images for color)
taken by Cassini 27.1.2010.
All images were rotated by 180° and equalised, thus regions illuminated by Saturn are visible.
Timewarp 150×.

Edit: Youtube version
2nd edit: HD version: youtube
lyford
Machi

Those are awesome, thank you! I feel like I'm flying! smile.gif
rlorenz
QUOTE (ElkGroveDan @ Jan 28 2010, 09:58 AM) *
Aha! I KNEW it! Saturn's small moons are covered in jpeg compression artifacts!


Slight underperformance of the aliens' cloaking device, evidently.
ups
That's no moon.
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