Saturn picture "Gold Mine" Link NEW Titan up close, page 1

I am not sure if this is new link but I found it today were we can finally view raw cassini images!!

They were slow leaking them I believe up till now. Its similar to the raw images offered by the Mars rover site except you can search. For instance try searching narrow camera and titan. LOTS of pictures!!

Yippie!

See you there..

saturn.jpl.nasa.gov...

and latest 500 images.

saturn.jpl.nasa.gov...

[edit on 1-7-2004 by Xeven]

[edit on 2-7-2004 by Xeven]

some really amazing shots of the rings. I was so hoping that they'd get some close-up shots of the thing. Too bad the images arn't as high of quality as the previous photos of Saturn were. Did they have to use a differnt camera or something?

Also some more cleaned up photos here in the latest images section, saturn.jpl.nasa.gov...

I was curious too Xeven, so I did a little searching on the net:

* What are Saturn's rings made of?

The rings are made of dusty water ice, which range in size from boulders to sand grains. Saturn's gravitational field constantly disrupts these ice chunks, keeping them spread out and preventing them from combining to form a moon.

This was taken from here

Hers is another interesting site about the color of Saturn's rings. Kind of an old article though:

Most people don't know that Saturn's rings aren't white but have a faint salmon color, which hints that a few percent of complex organic molecules are mixed in with the water ice the rings are mostly made of," Cuzzi said.

Saturn's seven small icy moons don't have such a reddish color, but many icy objects in the frozen reaches of the outer solar system do, he explained. This leads scientists to suspect that, unlike the moons, the rings were formed from an outer solar system object.

This object, they think, careened too close to Saturn and -- like comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 in 1994 -- was torn apart by the massive planet's gravity, leaving a trail of debris.

This info I got from this website

This gives some info on Saturn's ring structure and it's divisions:

Saturn's ring system is divided up into 7 major divisions with alphabetic designators in the order of discovery. From the innermost ring to the outermost ring the designators are D, C, B, A, F, G and E. Each major division is further subdivided into thousands of individual ringlets. The F and G rings are very thin and difficult to see while the A, B, and C rings are broad and quite visible. Between the A and B rings is a gap called the Cassini division named after Giovanni Cassini who discovered the Gap in 1676. Between the A and F rings lies the Keeler (Encke) gap.

www.solarviews.com...

Hope this answers some of your questions on Saturn's rings.

Is this the begining of a moon? I read somewere that Saturn was like a mini
Solar system in many respects so watching a moon form would be like watching our planet earth form around the sun in some respects.





I cut this from this image at Cassini images page.

saturn.jpl.nasa.gov...

These pictures are going to keep me occupied for some time hehe.

This must be a defect in the camera as it shows up in more pictures even pictures of Titan. Ive removed the picture.

X

[edit on 2-7-2004 by Xeven]

ciclops.lpl.arizona.edu...

Titan up close and personal lots and lots of pictures!

saturn.jpl.nasa.gov...

wow you can see clouds etc.. I want to see color!

saturn.jpl.nasa.gov...

[edit on 2-7-2004 by Xeven]

Here's my un-edited RGB image of TITAN which
is built from 3 channels containing the three
original raw grayscale photographs.

(unsharp used lightly on image)



koti.mbnet.fi...

I think the picture clearly shows cloud formations with
some surface also. What do you think?

..AND yes, the colors aren't manipulated in any way.

[edit on 3-7-2004 by Drol Asharin]

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