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Old 28-October-2004, 09:57 PM
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POST-TITAN A IMAGE OF ENCELADUS:
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Replay of Cassini news conference just starting on NASA TV (4pm CDT)
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Compare with map.

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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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
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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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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....
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.

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...Mimas from a few hundred thousand km at highest resolutions of 1.5 and 2 km/pixel respectively.
Any indication that the Mimas imagry came off?

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...Mimas from a few hundred thousand km at highest resolutions of 1.5 and 2 km/pixel respectively.
Any indication that the Mimas imagry came off?

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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.
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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.
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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