"wave" distortion patterns in Cassini ring images

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

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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