CASSIE: NASA's Saturn visualization software

[docm]

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/CASSIE/ <br /><br /><blockquote><font class="small">In reply to:</font><hr /><p><b>Cassini at Saturn Interactive Explorer (CASSIE)</b><br /><br />The first time you click on the button below it will automatically download and install the needed software (a free plug-in to your web-browser) and the real Cassini mission data. The download is about 15 megabytes so it should only take a minute or two. (If you use a Mac you may need to install the software after it downloads and then restart your web-browser.) Once the plug-in is installed and the mission data is loaded you're ready for your trip to the Saturn System.<br /><br />When CASSIE appears in your web browser, you'll see three clickable windows.<p><hr /></p></p></blockquote> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[h2ouniverse]

I've tested it. Great!<br />I liked too the "googleearthy" ball-rolling visu for the moons! A pity though that they are not zoomable, and that Titan is only an orange featureless surface.

 

[3488]

Thank you very very much docm,<br /><br />This is superb. Took a little while to download the initial program, but it works great & yes<br />I second Joel's comments. <img src="/images/icons/laugh.gif" /><br /><br />I was afraid to try CASSIE initially, owing to my troubled technical history, but seeing as you<br />personally endorsed it, I thought I would try it.<br /><br />Joel, I suspect this replicates the views of the Saturn system in visible light, hence<br />Titan will appear like a smoggy orange ball.<br /><br />Andrew Brown. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#000080">"I suddenly noticed an anomaly to the left of Io, just off the rim of that world. It was extremely large with respect to the overall size of Io and crescent shaped. It seemed unbelievable that something that big had not been visible before".</font> <em><strong><font color="#000000">Linda Morabito </font></strong><font color="#800000">on discovering that the Jupiter moon Io was volcanically active. Friday 9th March 1979.</font></em></p><p><font size="1" color="#000080">http://www.launchphotography.com/</font><br /><br /><font size="1" color="#000080">http://anthmartian.googlepages.com/thisislandearth</font></p><p><font size="1" color="#000080">http://web.me.com/meridianijournal</font></p> </div>

 

[h2ouniverse]

Hi Andrew,<br /><br />for Titan, the "visible color" of the surface, although in shades of orange, should include more contrasted albdeo marks (remember Huygens' pictures during descent), and the polar lakes...