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Awesome pic of Hyperion
Last post 09-30-2005 07:59 AM by jsmoody. 13 replies.
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  • 09-27-2005 02:23 PM

    Awesome pic of Hyperion

    http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS14/W00010681.jpg

    Great picture from Cassini.  There are several more in the "Raw Images" page.  Some of the links don't work but I'm sure they will get them fixed soon.

     

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  • 09-27-2005 02:45 PM In reply to

    Re: Awesome pic of Hyperion

    Wow! Talk about taking a pounding. That thing looks like the Mike Tyson of interstellar targets. Would love to see some other shots of it. Also, that would be the most challenging place to try and land a probe, with as close together as most of those craters are.

     

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  • 09-27-2005 03:04 PM In reply to

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    More pics here:

    http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/raw-images-list.cfm?browseLatest=1

    Like I said before, some of the links are broken.  Most of them work though.

    Keep hitting "Next" and you will come to some pretty cool pics of Tethys too.

     

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  • 09-27-2005 03:58 PM In reply to

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    The Tethysian landscape is quite remarkable! So unlike the marred and potted surface of Hyperion. I did not realize that Hyperion was not an orb shaped body, though; any idea how many moons are not in the traditional "ball" shape and are more like Heperion?

    Thanks for the links, Sr. Moody; much like the Hubble site, I never thought to look for one specific to each mission. Told ya I was shhtupid.Big Smile [:D]

     

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  • 09-27-2005 06:30 PM In reply to

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    There seem to be a lot of Saturnian moons that are not round.  They are too small. Jupiter has some irregular moons too.

    Check out the raw images off the main page, it lets you choose which object to view pics of. 

    http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/index.cfm

    There seemed to be some bugs in this site a while back.  I don't know if they've got them fixed yet.  They should have by now.

    I think Januus, Calypso, Helene, Methone Pallene, Pan, Pandora and several others are irregular.

    The Cassini site is VERY cool.  I visit it almost everyday to see what's going on.  The recent close flybys of Hyperion and Tethys produced some really cool pics.  Cool [8D]

    I also visit the Mars Rover site almost daily:

    http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html

     

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  • 09-28-2005 07:58 AM In reply to

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    There are even more new photos on the Raw Images section today.  That moon is really strange:

    http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS14/N00040238.jpg

    I was trying to think what would cause such a cratering pattern.  Looks like a big crater with thousands (or more) little craters covering every inch inside it.  I wondered if it could have gotten smacked really hard by something large and then the peices fell back or it ran into them in a later orbit or something.

    That moon looks like a giant peice of coral or a peice of honeycomb or something!

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  • 09-28-2005 11:22 AM In reply to

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    The oddest thing about that pic is the section that feathers away from the middle. A big old piece of crater, then an almost full circle of smooth ripples that flow out towards the edges. Weird.

     

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  • 09-29-2005 08:39 AM In reply to

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    Very cool closeups of Tethys too:

    For larger version:

    http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS14/N00040100.jpg

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  • 09-29-2005 09:48 AM In reply to

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    You know, it looks like everything that hit this one just kinda stuck into it, like it is a soft surface that absorbed the force of the impact and held the impactor in place. The dark spots around some of those rocks give that impression. Weird.

     

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  • 09-29-2005 09:51 AM In reply to

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    I think it's probably mostly dirty ice, near the surface anyway.  So maybe whatever hit it melted the ice and then it refroze in those odd shapes? 

     

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  • 09-29-2005 10:11 AM In reply to

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    Ooo, ooo, I know! I know!

    It's made of spoiled clotted cream!Big Smile [:D]

     

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  • 09-29-2005 12:34 PM In reply to

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    Well, I couldn't resist posting this one.  It's one of my favorites of the more recent photos from Cassini:

    Larger version here:

    http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS14/N00039923.jpg

    It would be really cool to have a night sky that looks like that!

    pms - what's with the new avatar?  But then....I always knew you were a big baby! Big Smile [:D]

     

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  • 09-29-2005 02:10 PM In reply to

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    The new avatar is my response to the whole abortion debate: an ugly baby.Big Smile [:D]

     

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  • 09-30-2005 07:59 AM In reply to

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    A new, false color pic on the Cassini website now:

     

    Details:

    http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/news/press-release-details.cfm?newsID=605

    and larger pic:

    http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA07740.jpg

    Hyperion looks stranger and stranger with each new photo!

     

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