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Old 11-December-2004, 08:53 PM
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Some of the new raw Titan images are available to view at the Cassini website:



Looks to me like there's an impact crater or volcano visible just to the left of centre in this image.

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That's no moon. That's a space stati...oh, yeah it is a moon.
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High-resolution mosaic of Dione.
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Dione and Saturn



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Cassini captured Dione against the globe of Saturn as it approached the icy moon for its close rendezvous on Dec. 14, 2004. This natural color view shows the moon has strong variations in brightness across its surface, but a remarkable lack of color, compared to the warm hues of Saturn's atmosphere.
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Cassini has found Titan's upper atmosphere to consist of a surprising number of layers of haze, as shown in this ultraviolet image of Titan's night side limb, colorized to look like true color. The many fine haze layers extend several hundred kilometers above the surface.
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To the surprise of Cassini imaging scientists, the wispy terrain does not consist of thick ice deposits, but rather the bright ice cliffs created by tectonic fractures. The surface is also clearly very heavily cratered.
Highest Resolution View of Dione

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Saturn's planet-sized moon Titan displays a surprisingly flattened-looking north pole in this Cassini image. The cause of this flattening is not presently known.
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In only one day's time, Cassini will make a close flyby over the dark leading
hemisphere of the strange Saturnian moon, Iapetus. A map illustrating the
coverage that the Imaging Team hopes to obtain during this event, which will
yield a resolution five times better than the best Voyager images of Iapetus,
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http://ciclops.org
Imagine what the reaction would be if it turned out to be full of stars!
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Imagine what the reaction would be if it turned out to be full of stars!
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Imagine what the reaction would be if it turned out to be full of stars!
No stars yet in this December 27 image of Japetus.



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[...] was taken on December 27, 2004 and received on Earth December 27, 2004. The camera was pointing toward IAPETUS at approximately 761,919 kilometers away [...]
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Nice big composite image I just whipped up quickly from the latest raw images:

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It's quite obvious from this picture that the Iapetians... Iapetusites... er.... former residents of Iapetus did Hoagland's former Martians one better. The Martians only did a face, the former residents of Iapetus created a whole body. Looking very similar to the seated Egyptians sculptures. Hmmm..... Ya think.....Nahhhhh. 8)
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I showed this to a radialogist, and she is quite certain it is a malignant carcinoma, right beneath the areola... A biopsy is strongly recomended.
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Just decided to check out the latest raw image from Iapetus and all I can say is I think that Tethys may no longer have the largest crater in the solar system.
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Don't know which is the current nomenclature rules by the IAU for Iapetus, put they should name one Clarke and maybe another one Kubrick, just for what they did for the popularization of that moon.

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IT IS!

Actually, only real stars in the image are the straight lines in the upper-right part of the image. Everything else is noise. This is a pretty cool view of Iapetus in Saturn-shine.
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Just decided to check out the latest raw image from Iapetus and all I can say is I think that Tethys may no longer have the largest crater in the solar system.
Largest craters in the Solar System are Hellas Basin on Mars and South Pole-Aitken Basin on the Moon -- both much larger than Tethys itself.
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Don't know which is the current nomenclature rules by the IAU for Iapetus, put they should name one Clarke and maybe another one Kubrick, just for what they did for the popularization of that moon.
Hmm... Kubrick's involvement was indirect at best, given that he removed Iapetus from the movie. But it certainly featured prominently in the concurrently-written book, which was in turn popularized by the movie...
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Just decided to check out the latest raw image from Iapetus and all I can say is I think that Tethys may no longer have the largest crater in the solar system.
The one in that picture isn't even the biggest one on Iapetus-- this one is bigger. Iapetus has several mind-bogglingly huge craters in the dark area. Earlier Cassini photos showed one just slightly smaller that is right on the equator-- it's over the horizon in these pictures, but it would be interesting to see how that interacts with the mysterious ridge.
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Don't know which is the current nomenclature rules by the IAU for Iapetus, put they should name one Clarke and maybe another one Kubrick, just for what they did for the popularization of that moon.
Hmm... Kubrick's involvement was indirect at best, given that he removed Iapetus from the movie. But it certainly featured prominently in the concurrently-written book, which was in turn popularized by the movie...
He removed it because his FX-department couldn't come up with a convincing Saturn. So he switched back to Jupiter. Kubrick and Clarke both developed book and movie in parallel. As Clarke said, the movie is by Kubrick and Clarke, the book by Clarke and Kubrick.

I never saw the proposals for Saturn given to Kubrick by his FX department. I think, if they would given him a Saturn with rings like they really are -as Voyager found out - he would have called this also not convincing. I guess, he would have said "I don't want people for the rest of the movie thinking about why Saturn's rings look like a LP record."

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That ridge appears to have been there for quite a while.

This image shows quite a few impacts long it.
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