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On Sun, 04 Jul 2004 17:24:42 -1000, "Alex R. Blackwell"
wrote: LooseChanj wrote: This is probably a silly question, but what are the scattered points of light? All I can think is "stars", but that's so obviously wrong. Hmm. I'm not sure what you are referring to. Can you point to a specific image? ....They're in quite a number of images where it's a distance shot of one of the moons. Mimas comes to mind as being the first one where I've seen these. They *are*, from what I can gather, stars in relative motion due to the shutter speed required to gather the required light levels. Of course, when the telemetry from the Bug Zapper that Lockheed installed on the main buss comes back, I'll probably be proven wrong big time. OM -- "No ******* ever won a war by dying for | http://www.io.com/~o_m his country. He won it by making the other | Sergeant-At-Arms poor dumb ******* die for his country." | Human O-Ring Society - General George S. Patton, Jr |
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LooseChanj wrote in
: On or about Sat, 03 Jul 2004 17:28:04 -1000, Alex R. Blackwell made the sensational claim that: If you're referring to the high albedo feature over Titan's south polar regions, then almost everyone I know is fairly confident this represents tropospheric clouds, especially since the feature is seen to move in the ISS imagery, and most probably methane condensing out of the atmosphere. This is probably a silly question, but what are the scattered points of light? All I can think is "stars", but that's so obviously wrong. Could be radiation-induced noise in the imager; depends how long was taken for a given image. --Damon |
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