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Pumpkin Pitatus?
Published on 24 Nov 2006 at 1:04 am.
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First have a look at this LPOD - lunar photo of the day entry.
Then examine this photo I took of a similar feature…
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I wonder if any analogies can me be drawn between the way my pumpkin pie cooled and the way crater Pitatus cooled after it initially formed. Are there similar [...]
Another Mars panorama on the way?
Published on 28 Jul 2006 at 10:13 pm.
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I was browsing the latest posted raw images from the Mars rover Opportunity and I couldn’t help but notice a sequence of Panoramic Camera images overlapped at the edges. I stitched together 5 of of these images (Left Panoramic Camera : Filter 2 (753nm near-infrared) : Non-linearized : Full frame EDR acquired on Sol [...]
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Of Occultations and Animations
Published on 22 Jun 2006 at 12:05 am.
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In the last few posts I’d created some animations out of raw Cassini images sequences. In my most recent post I mentioned wanting to see more animations from the folks that operate Cassini, if only for the “gee whiz” factor. It would seem the folks at JPL and the Space Science Institute have answered the [...]
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Another Animation From Cassini
Published on 11 Jun 2006 at 7:30 pm.
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Once again while browsing the latest raw images from Cassini, I noticed this image sequence. It was shot on June 10th with the camera pointed toward Enceladus which was approximately 3,911,272 kilometers away. Enceladus is the little black dot occulting Titan with the mid-point of the occultation occurring on June 10, around about 15:39 UT [...]
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Enceladus Occults Tethys
Published on 9 Jun 2006 at 9:48 am.
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…but you only got to see it if you were riding the Cassini probe orbiting Saturn.
While browsing the latest raw images from Cassini, I found this image sequence shot on June 6th with the camera was pointed toward Enceladus which was approximately 3,904,788 kilometers away. Based on where Cassini was in it’s orbit I’m fairly [...]
