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Cassini Aegaeon and Prometheus awesomeness
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/01/28 12:38 CST
There were many, many treats waiting on the Cassini raw images website this morning. Yesterday, Cassini traversed the G ring, taking photos all the way.
Highlights from the January 1, 2010 Cassini imaging data release
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/01/13 03:43 CST
The January 1, 2010 Cassini imaging data release includes everything acquired by Cassini from January 1 to March 30, 2009 in all its high-quality glory.
Awesome Mars Express view of Phobos and Deimos together
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2009/12/11 11:24 CST
My inbox was exploding this morning with messages about a tremendously cool animation released this morning by ESA's Mars Express team. It shows Phobos crossing Deimos, in what's known as a "mutual event."
Posted by David Seal on 2009/06/04 06:31 CDT
Saturn is rapidly approaching equinox, where the Sun passes through the ring plane (south-to-north, i.e. the northern vernal equinox), and its ring system (i.e. its great now-gloomy poorly-lit circles of large blocks of water ice) is starting to show some really interesting behavior.
A way-cool Cassini picture: rings, Titan, Dione, Prometheus
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2005/10/19 07:12 CDT
I just noticed this picture on the Cassini raw images website. I love these "many worlds" pictures.
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2005/10/01 11:11 CDT
I've finally worked my way through all of the Hyperion images that were returned from the last flyby. It's a wonderful data set.
A couple of pretty Cassini photos from this week
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2005/08/20 09:06 CDT
First, here's a nice shot of Epimetheus, which was taken about a month ago.
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2005/08/18 08:35 CDT
Checking the Cassini raw images website, I found quite a few more images of Hyperion this morning. It looks like Cassini had a leisurely flyby of the little moon from roughly 700,000 kilometers' distance.
A couple cool raw Cassini pics -- and a break in the data
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2005/07/19 04:56 CDT
I monitor the Cassini website to keep my eye out for cool pictures, and it's usually relatively easy to figure out what the spacecraft is looking at (rings, moon, Saturn, whatever). Sometimes, though, the images can be very confusing.
A couple of pics from Cassini at periapsis
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2005/06/27 08:20 CDT
Cassini's been in orbit around Saturn for almost exactly a year now, and the mission seems pretty much to have dropped off of the public radar screen. But there's still three years to go on the primary mission, and lots left to do, and I for one am not at all bored.
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