Hyperion

[mmcirvin]

Cassini's best pictures yet of Hyperion, taken Thursday and Friday and overly magnified by me:








These aren't as good as Voyager 2's images yet, but they seem to show different views of Hyperion.

It's hard to interpret these pictures in part because of Hyperion's chaotic tumbling and the spacecraft's changing orientation; the rotation axis seems to have changed completely between the first pair of pictures and the rest, but since the lighting direction seems to be following the rotation in the first pair, I think it was actually Cassini that rotated there.

Comments

[partiallyclips.livejournal.com]

I found this view particularly intriguing...

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

I was thinking about putting the Shrike in somewhere.

[partiallyclips.livejournal.com]

You could always go backwards in time and beat me to it.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

And now I find out that one of Jef Raskin's kids is named Aenea. (http://macobserver.com/article/2005/02/28.1.shtml)

[partiallyclips.livejournal.com]

He named all of his children in palindromes beginning with A? Every time I think I am just weird enough, I hear about somebody blowing the curve.

[sanspoof.livejournal.com]

Poor Jef Raskin! Damn. Who will reform the UIs of the world now?

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Howwwwwdy ho!