Images of Saturn and its Moons

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Titan and its haze.<br /><br /><font color="yellow">Encircled in purple stratospheric haze, Saturn's largest moon, Titan, appears as a softly glowing sphere in this colorized image taken on July 3, 2004, one day after Cassini's first flyby of that moon. Titan has a dense atmosphere composed primarily of nitrogen with a few percent methane. The atmosphere can undergo photochemical processes to form hazes.<br /><br />http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/<br /><br /></font> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Ron Bennett </div>

 

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Now that I showed you that one from JPL here is one that I brightened and enlarged from Voyager, <br />to show the atmosphere of Titan. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Ron Bennett </div>

 

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Saturn and some of its moons as seen from Voyager and Cassini. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Ron Bennett </div>

 

[spacechump]

It is dang hard to get the right filter combos for color images of saturn...at least from the wide angle. Here is my first attempt.<br />

 

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Looks good needs a little more color. <br /><br />Here is something I thought was unusual that was in one of Cassinis raw images. <br /><br />Looks like Cassini may be in for a rude awakening with all the particles orbiting Saturn. Hope it last for <br />several years, but if this is what it looks like, it may have a few holes in it before its primary mission is<br /> over. Its either a flsh from a impact or an over-exposure. If its an over exposure then what are all those spherical objects.<br /><br />8-4-4-W00000805 <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Ron Bennett </div>

 

[spacechump]

<blockquote><font class="small">In reply to:</font><hr /><p>Looks good needs a little more color. <p><hr /></p></p></blockquote><br /><br />If I remember right Saturn really isn't all that colorful to the naked eye...more of a dull tan. But hey I could always jazz it up a bit <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" /> <br /><br />Edit: jpl just released this image of "true color" Saturn. Looks like i needed a bit more blue.<br /><br />http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA05429.jpg

 

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Here is a larger view of the above image. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Ron Bennett </div>

 

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Thanks. <br /><br />Isn't that something, when you think you have something down right, they go and through <br />something like that at you. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Ron Bennett </div>

 

[spacechump]

Man that looks like one hell of a lens flare!

 

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<font color="orange">Man that looks like one hell of a lens flare! <font color="white"><br /><br />Yes it does, was that an intentional overexposure. I have noticed a lot of small spherical objects <br />around the rings and Saturn. <br /><br />Here is Saturns polar region.<br /></font></font> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Ron Bennett </div>

 

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Now look at the same image (embossed) at the polar region again. <br /><br />It looks like the eye of a huge Hurricane. Notice a small white spherical object at the center of the vortex. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Ron Bennett </div>

 

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Two new looks at Saturn the first one shows some waviness as described by JPL. I enhanced<br /> there image a little more and added false color. <br /><br />http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/gs2.cgi?path=../multimedia/images/saturn/images/PIA05432.jpg&type=image<br /><br />PIA05432_modest<br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Ron Bennett </div>

 

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I embossed the above image and here is what I ended up with. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Ron Bennett </div>

 

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I got back to you kind of late here but Cassini is approaching Titan again. It is time to <br />take some more pictures. <br /><br />As I have stated for over four years now, watch the temperature fluctuations from pole to <br />equator to vary as much as 100c on Titan, this counters the old theories of the surface temperatures <br />of Titan not varying much from pole to equator.<br /><br />Be prepared to be amazed as to what we find out on Titan. <br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Ron Bennett </div>

 

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This is where they finally admit that it is very volcanic....<br /><br />N00023214.5<br /><br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Ron Bennett </div>

 

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I watched the images coming in late last night and I saw some interesting large lobes, one <br />looked like a typical snow covered volcano on earth. Out of the top of it as the images changed <br />I saw what appeared to be a cloud in one image but it was gone in the next image; however <br />that could be the result of the change in filters. <br /><br />Can't wait to hear what they have to say at today’s news convergences. Radio imagery is <br />going to cut through the haze just like it did on Venus. <br /><br />I will post the images as they are released. Right now the raw image server is down? <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Ron Bennett </div>

 

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slash.dotted is a more exact description. <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" /><br />Too many downloaders, it is on and off all day. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <em>I feel better than James Brown.</em> </div>

 

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<font color="orange">The Chemist<font color="white"><br /><br />There was a problem getting in there but now it seems OK. I like what the radar unit is doing,<br /> they can cut through the haze and even see below the surface.<br /><br />False color images. Be carefull how you view these, dark may mean sloped or fluid surfaces. <br /><br />PIA06984_modest.55</font></font> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Ron Bennett </div>

 

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FC-68025main_pia06991_detai <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Ron Bennett </div>

 

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FC-68029main_pia6988_detail <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Ron Bennett </div>

 

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On left is Titan on right is Mars<br /><br />CT_68023main_pia06990_detai <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Ron Bennett </div>

 

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W00002340.5 <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Ron Bennett </div>

 

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PIA06982_modest.5 <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Ron Bennett </div>

 

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Height of terrain JPL release.<br /><br />PIA06989.5<br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Ron Bennett </div>