Bulging anime veins on Enceladus
Feb. 18th, 2005 07:42 pmThis 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.