2005-02-18

mmcirvin: (Default)
2005-02-18 07:42 pm

Bulging anime veins on Enceladus

Vein-like ridges and canyons on Enceladus

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.
mmcirvin: (Default)
2005-02-18 09:25 pm

I'm not going to hit you

None of you are dumb enough to put the names of the movements in the "Artist" field and then upload the track data to CDDB, right? Right?

(Putting the name of the composer in there is only a minor offense.)