Enceladus Raw Images
As Raw images from the Enceladus flyby that took place last night roll in on the JPL Cassini Raw images page (and later on the CICLOPS page), I will post them here. They should start to come in within the next half hour.
New images posted...
Update 2: Feel free to discuss the images in comments...
Update 3: Changed some links to CICLOPS versions without truncated lines.
New images posted...
Update 2: Feel free to discuss the images in comments...
Update 3: Changed some links to CICLOPS versions without truncated lines.
- Global Scale image #1
- Global Scale image #2
- The Straight Scarp, the Alan Wrench Fracture, and the crater chain
- Okay, I'm at a loss for words (south of the preceding image)
- Highest resolution image (~25 m/pixel)
- Dunyazad and Shahrazad craters (look at those fractures in their interiors)
- Cone in middle of crater + criss-crossing straight scarp
- Thin fractures draping over craters + Enceladean bedrock
- More odd fracturing and wrinkle terrain
- Cycloidal ridges near south pole
- Enceladus badlands and grooves
- 1.5 km tall cliff seen near limb (seen last month head-on near center of image)
- Harran Sulci and Diyar Planitia
posted by Jason Perry at 12:58 PM
2 Comments:
The surface reminds me of Europa.
One thing I'm loving about Enceladus is how even the terrains that appeared to be plain-old, boring cratered stuff in the Voyager images turn out to be shot through with all these spidery fractures.
I'd really like a closer look at those spots/bumps/vents?, and the south polar/leading hemisphere "badlands."
Jason - any idea as to whether we'll be seeing better than 25m/px resolution later in the mission? I was expecting we'd get meter-scale images from this flyby, but no dice, alas. Is it just too tough to turn the spacecraft smoothly enough to get those high-res images at closest approach? Or was one of the other instruments being used then?
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