Dione, Rhea, and Mimas raw images
Raw images from the non-targeted encounters of Dione, Rhea, and Mimas should start showing up this evening with a second batch tomorrow morning.
Watch this space for raw images as they show up on the JPL Raw images page.
Watch this space for raw images as they show up on the JPL Raw images page.
- Full-disk view of Rhea's south polar region
- 1.5 km/pixel view of Dione's wispy terrain
- 1.4 km/pixel view of Dione's wispy terrain
- 1.2 km/pixel view of two, 250-km wide impact basins on Rhea near its south pole
- 1.3 km/pixel view of Herschel crater near terminator
- 1.1 km/pixel view of Herschel crater near terminator (this better replace the old, Voyager view of Herschel)
- 500 m/pixel view of Mimas and Arthur crater
posted by Jason Perry at 7:58 PM
5 Comments:
What will be the highest resolution image of Mimas? I thought Cassini had a closer encounter of 45000 km later on, so wouldn't it have even better coverage then?
1:30pm or so. Close encounter was 62,000 km, not 45,000. This is the closest encounter that was 45,000 km.
Just before the Mimas, Dione, and Rhea pictures started there were a ton of photos of the little inner satellites. In the midst of those was two photos that were targeted at "RINGS", including this one. Am I seeing the "Wavemaker moon" S/2005 S1 in that image? Is this the first time it's been targeted since discovery, or has it been seend many times since then?
looks like it. I am no where near involved in designing the observations of the "rocks", or the small Saturnian satellites. Given that the observations for this orbit were finalized in mid-May, IIRC, it wouldn't surprise me if this was a targeted observation (part of a series of "Retargetings", again IIRC. Not sure if we have looked for it between May and now. Orbit 11 was finalized in April, before the discovery.
Rhea has a very Old surface...Are you surprised by how shallow the craters appear to be?
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