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Old September 13th 07, 07:33 AM posted to sci.astro,sci.astro.amateur
Jason H.
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Default Iapetus ridge shots

As many of you know there was a recent flyby of Iapetus by NASA's
Cassini spacecraft (and that it went into safe mode but they recovered
the data.) The Cassini website has great images
from the flyby, however I didn't see any closeup images of the ridge
in the PR images section or on Cassini's main page, so I went to the
raw images section and saw the following. This first one I've rotated
180 degrees.

http://setisociety.org/iapetus2.jpg

This next one I've rotated and proportionally enlarged to 200% of
original

http://setisociety.org/Iapetus.jpg

(for purists here is the crisper original un-rotated http://setisociety.org/N00091828.jpg
)

Aside from some of the great shots in the raw images section (which
will shortly cycle off of their raw images section of the website) on
their PR page they have this nice shot

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA08372.jpg

and a couple of others that sort of explain the sharp contrasts on the
surface.

Regards, Jason H. (not affiliated with NASA, JPL etc.)

 




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