Ian Regan • Nov 08, 2016
Serene Saturn (or the “Glutton for Punishment” mosaic)
Blast my impulsive nature! A week ago Saturday I decided -- against my better judgment -- to tackle this monster of a mosaic. I call it the "Glutton for Punishment" mosaic. It took me a week to finish the work, but I believe the results were worth it. The sequence was captured by Cassini over the course of 90-plus minutes on the morning of October 28 with the wide-angle camera, while the narrow-angle camera was acquiring a color scan of the main rings.
![Saturn mosaic on 28 October 2016](https://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assets/pictures/_2400x1163_crop_center-center_82_line/134259/20161108_2016-10-28Saturn-GluttonForPunishmentMosaic.jpg 2400w, https://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assets/pictures/_1200x581_crop_center-center_82_line/134259/20161108_2016-10-28Saturn-GluttonForPunishmentMosaic.jpg 1200w, https://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assets/pictures/_768x372_crop_center-center_60_line/134259/20161108_2016-10-28Saturn-GluttonForPunishmentMosaic.jpg 768w, https://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assets/pictures/_576x279_crop_center-center_60_line/134259/20161108_2016-10-28Saturn-GluttonForPunishmentMosaic.jpg 576w)
Only three moons are visible as far as I'm able to ascertain: Epimetheus (just above the right ansa, near Saturn); and Atlas and Prometheus (at the tip of the left ansa). Pan is too faint to be detectable, and Janus must be just out of frame. The hexagon is prominent. I think I see vertical relief on the circular collar external to the polar hexagon, on the side nearest the terminator. These shots from the Saturn Viewer at the Ring-Moon Systems node show the positions of the moons at the beginning and end of the mosaic.
![Simulated views of Saturn at the beginning and end of the "Glutton for Punishment" mosaic](https://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assets/pictures/_2400x1446_crop_center-center_82_line/19882/20161108_gfp_positions.jpg 2400w, https://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assets/pictures/_1200x723_crop_center-center_82_line/19882/20161108_gfp_positions.jpg 1200w, https://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assets/pictures/_768x462_crop_center-center_60_line/19882/20161108_gfp_positions.jpg 768w, https://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assets/pictures/_576x347_crop_center-center_60_line/19882/20161108_gfp_positions.jpg 576w)
A few technical details: the product consists of 21 frames across 7 footprints, filtered in groups of Red, Green, and Blue. Here's how the raw images come together:
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