POST-TITAN A IMAGE OF ENCELADUS:
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedi...iImageID=26006
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POST-TITAN A IMAGE OF ENCELADUS:
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedi...iImageID=26006
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Replay of Cassini news conference just starting on NASA TV (4pm CDT)
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Compare with map.Originally Posted by Kullat Nunu
If I'm not confused, the crater at the terminator is Telemachus and the biggest Penelope.
Are the folds along the terminator near Telemachus real or a shadow effect? They are not on the map, maybe the sun was high when the Voyagers passed by. I've to pull out my old PDS CD-ROMs...
PS: they are real. Just much better visible now with the low sun.
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Polychemus is the double crater 7:30 o'clock from the largest crater, and Phemius to the left from Polychemus, so the large crater must be Penelope. If the map is right, Telemachus is only large crater over Ithaca Chasma ("chain" of three craters, Ajax (poorly visible near the lower right limb), Polychemus, and Phemius points approximately towards it). So you're right.
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Rhea
This view of Saturn's second-largest moon, Rhea (1,528 kilometers, or 949 miles, across), shows some of the large craters that cover its surface. There is a bright feature near the moon's right limb, possibly a large, rayed crater or bright icy material exposed by internal processes.
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Rhea - an improved view from the above.
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Saturn and Tethys
Quite a gash.
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Hovering Over Titan is a mosaic of flyby images showing a full disc of Titan.
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Battered and Grooved is a mosaic showing almost a full disc of Tethys.
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From Mission News: Cassini Shows Grandeur of Two Saturn Moons
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As a (drunken) taxpayer I'd just like to say that whatever small percentage of my tax dollars went to this project was money well spent. One small request though...COLOR . Maybe you've heard of it. It's what keeps these very nice images of other worlds from being great images of other worlds. I'm just saying....
Yes, I'm aware that the last one is color.
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These pictures of Titan aren't taken in visible light, so any colors wouldn't be realistic. On the other hand, they have released pictures that combine different bands to produce a (garish-looking) false-color image, and others that do the same thing through the VIMS instrument, which takes a whole spectrum for every pixel.
VIMS image
Multi-filter image
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Any indication that the Mimas imagry came off?
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Mimas and the rings - WOW!!
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Wow indeed. My new wallpaper. 8)
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I don't believe any close-up images of Mimas were taken at the end of Cassini's first orbit around Saturn.Any indication that the Mimas imagry came off?
Graham
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Right. All raw images are posted on the Cassini site. No Mimas close-ups yet.
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Follow the Arrow
New Titan radar picture showing a arrow-shaped formation, whatever it is.
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Walmart two miles this way.
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Wall Drug - 1.5 billion Km ->
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Seeing in the Dark
Waning Iapetus
Many impact craters can be seen in the bright terrain and in the transition zone between bright and dark, and for the first time in parts of the dark terrain. Also visible is a line of mountains that appear as a string of bright dots in the two color images at left, and on the eastern limb in the image at right. These mountains were originally detected in Voyager images, and might compete in height with the tallest mountains on Earth, Jupiter's moon Io and possibly even Mars. Further observations will be required to precisely determine their heights. Interestingly, the line of peaks is aligned remarkably close to the equator of Iapetus.
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Hmmmm....
I'm no expert, but the dark bit on Iapetus looks like it could be a honkin' big mare. I can't really tell how rough the surface is there, but to me it looks a lot like the Moon. Am I missing something?
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Streaks across Dione
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OMG!!
Dione has chemtrails! Just wait 'til the woo-woos at GLP see this!:roll:
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Just an fyi...this appears to be a "re-release" of the Dione image from November 25, already posted by ToSeek on November 30. It's seemingly to get us excited for next week's close flybys of Titan and Dione, as made clear by the title on the Cassini mission page: "Titan and Dione on Deck."
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I knew I'd see it eventually: ToSeek was ToSeeked by ToSeek.
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The odd thing is that it's the same source for both images.I knew I'd see it eventually: ToSeek was ToSeeked by ToSeek.
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