Images of Saturn and its Moons

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Thanks, swampcat! Wow, that brings the linear features out even more. It's so startling to discover that those are really *cliffs*, not just albedo features. I wonder what created them? <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><font color="#666699"><em>"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly . . . timey wimey . . . stuff."</em>  -- The Tenth Doctor, "Blink"</font></p> </div>

 

[Swampcat]

This color image of Iapetus was put together from the IR1, GRN and UV3 filter raw images taken December 27 at a distance of approximately 762,000 km.<br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font size="3" color="#ff9900"><p><font size="1" color="#993300"><strong><em>------------------------------------------------------------------- </em></strong></font></p><p><font size="1" color="#993300"><strong><em>"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. Unsuccessful rebellions, indeed, generally establish the encroachments on the rights of the people which have produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of rebellions as not to discourage them too much. It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government."</em></strong></font></p><p><font size="1" color="#993300"><strong>Thomas Jefferson</strong></font></p></font> </div>

 

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Here is another Iapetus image and some extreme close-up that I enlarged. There are some moons of <br />Iepetus or Saturian moons in the distance in the background on the left side. There is an orange shaped<br />nib on the right side, wonder if that was created by the large impact crater to the left from the resulting<br /> shock wave. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Ron Bennett </div>

 

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Here is an extreme close-up of the northern part of the image that looks like it is engulfed in sunlight. <br /><br />Notice the streamers coming up from the surface in the sunlight area only??? <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Ron Bennett </div>

 

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Don't know what to think of the moon like object lower right part of this image (may be a optics <br />deflection of some-sort) and the apparent ridges stretching out to space from the surface of Iapetus . <br />I may have streched this image past its limit. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Ron Bennett </div>

 

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More Iapetus<br /><br />N00026206.3 <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Ron Bennett </div>

 

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Even closer look at last image, I darkened it a bit.<br /><br />N00026206.5 <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Ron Bennett </div>

 

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I lightened the northern part of the N00026206 image to see into the darkeness, and this is what I got. <br /><br />N00026206.7 <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Ron Bennett </div>

 

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More - <br /><br />Keep in mind that these images are from one filter images. True representation of the colors can <br />only be verified by three filters sandwiched together (RGB) and no one does that better than the <br />people at JPL. I'm only doing it this way with these images to bring out the detail that one cannot <br />normally view by just looking at the raw images.<br /> <br /><br />N00026249.5<br /><br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Ron Bennett </div>

 

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In this image if you look close at the empty space above right, what is that the ISS or a artifact??? <br /><br />N00026363.5 <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Ron Bennett </div>

 

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Here is an extreme close-up of the object described above, keep in mind these are raw images???<br /><br />N00026363.7 <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Ron Bennett </div>

 

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Here is an extreme enlarged part I rotated to show what appears to be the edge of the equatorial like ridge on Iapetus.<br /><br />N00026256.7 <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Ron Bennett </div>