Bulging anime veins on Enceladus
Feb. 18th, 2005 07:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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This is a more or less raw image of Saturn's moon Enceladus from the Thursday Cassini flyby. All I did was get rid of the irritating comb-like data dropouts in the original image (which I suspect are what happens when the investigator underestimates the data allocation that will be needed for the picture). JPL has a 3D version but it covers a slightly narrower area. They say that these ridges are not actually enormously tall, just about a thousand meters (unlike the crazy equatorial ridge on Iapetus, which is freaking enormous).
JPL also has a peculiar pseudo-color picture and a wide-area mosaic (which is really spectacular; for once they seem to have beat the hobbyists out the door). Enceladus is still looking sort of like a mini-Europa, except with a cratered area near the north pole.
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look matt!
Date: 2005-02-19 04:43 am (UTC)Re: look matt!
Date: 2005-02-19 08:30 am (UTC)I don't think anyone really knows why some of these neutron stars are so tremendously magnetic even compared to the usual pulsars. The form of matter they are made of is so weird compared to anything that can be studied in large quantities in a laboratory.
Re: look matt!
Date: 2005-02-19 11:22 am (UTC)Re: look matt!
Date: 2005-02-19 12:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-19 11:28 pm (UTC)