Open House Images and More!
May 14, 2007
(Source: JPL)
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Featured images at the 2007 JPL Open House are here. Please feel free to enjoy them and download them for your own use.
Saturn
This is our highest resolution of Saturn:
The Greatest Saturn Portrait ...Yet
While cruising around Saturn in early October 2004, Cassini captured a series of images that have been composed into the largest, most detailed, global natural color view of Saturn and its rings ever made.
The Dragon Storm
A large, bright and complex convective storm that appeared in Saturn's southern hemisphere in mid-September 2004 was the key in solving a long-standing mystery about the ringed planet.
Nature's Canvas
In a splendid portrait created by light and gravity, Saturn's lonely moon Mimas is seen against the cool, blue-streaked backdrop of Saturn's northern hemisphere. Delicate shadows cast by the rings arc gracefully across the planet, fading into darkness on Saturn's night side.
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Face of Beauty
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The Face of Beauty
Few sights in the solar system are more strikingly beautiful than softly hued Saturn embraced by the shadows of its stately rings.
Blinding Saturn
Surely one of the most gorgeous sights the solar system has to offer, Saturn sits enveloped by the full splendor of its stately rings.
The amazing Saturn's Shadow shot
With giant Saturn hanging in the blackness and sheltering Cassini from the sun's blinding glare, the spacecraft viewed the rings as never before, revealing previously unknown faint rings and even glimpsing its home world.
Bonus shot: Pale Blue Orb (Our Earth as seen through Saturn’s rings)
Not since NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft saw our home as a pale blue dot from beyond the orbit of Neptune has Earth been imaged in color from the outer solar system. Now, Cassini casts powerful eyes on our home planet, and captures Earth, a pale blue orb -- and a faint suggestion of our moon -- among the glories of the Saturn system.
Rings
Graceful Lanes of Ice
The dark Cassini Division, within Saturn's rings, contains a great deal of structure, as seen in this color image. The sharp inner boundary of the division (left of center) is the outer edge of the massive B ring and is maintained by the gravitational influence of the moon Mimas.
Moons of Saturn
Encountering Iapetus
On New Year's Eve 2004, Cassini flew past Saturn's intriguing moon Iapetus, capturing the four visible light images that were put together to form this global view.
Titan's Halo
With its thick, distended atmosphere, Titan's orange globe shines softly, encircled by a thin halo of purple light-scattering haze.
Titan in False Color
This image shows Titan in ultraviolet and infrared wavelengths. It was taken by Cassini's imaging science subsystem on Oct. 26, 2004, and is constructed from four images acquired through different color filters. Red and green colors represent infrared wavelengths and show areas where atmospheric methane absorbs light. These colors reveal a brighter (redder) northern hemisphere. Blue represents ultraviolet wavelengths and shows the high atmosphere and detached hazes.
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Liquid Lakes on Titan
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Liquid Lakes on Titan
The existence of oceans or lakes of liquid methane on Saturn's moon Titan was predicted more than 20 years ago. But with a dense haze preventing a closer look it has not been possible to confirm their presence. Until the Cassini flyby of July 22, 2006, that is.
Zooming In On Enceladus (Mosaic)
As it swooped past the south pole of Saturn's moon Enceladus on July 14, 2005, Cassini acquired high resolution views of this puzzling ice world. From afar, Enceladus exhibits a bizarre mixture of softened craters and complex, fractured terrains.
Odd World (Hyperion)
This stunning false-color view of Saturn's moon Hyperion reveals crisp details across the strange, tumbling moon's surface. Differences in color could represent differences in the composition of surface materials. The view was obtained during Cassini's close flyby on Sept. 26, 2005.
Intense Color on Rhea
This intense false-color view highlights and enhances color variations across the cratered and cracked surface of Saturn's moon Rhea.
All of Saturn’s Moons
The dozens of moons orbiting Saturn vary drastically in shape, size, age and origin.
Just for the fun of it, here are some more items not featured at Open House!
Cassini Images Featured in National Geographic
3D Movie of Saturn's Rings During Ring Plane Crossing
Science Section
Saturn: http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/science/index.cfm?PageID=51
Rings: http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/science/index.cfm?PageID=55
Titan: http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/science/index.cfm?PageID=73
Moons: http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/science/moons/index.cfm
Magnetosphere: http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/science/index.cfm?PageID=59
Titan Virtual Tour
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/science/index.cfm?PageID=91
For sounds, presentations and more, check out here:
Make Your Own Cassini Presentations
http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/scitech/display.cfm?ST_ID=1610