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mmcirvin ([personal profile] mmcirvin) wrote2005-03-10 01:35 am

OK, here's a color one before I go to bed

Wrinked and cracked Enceladus against the yellowish disc of Saturn

This is Enceladus against the disc of Saturn, a not-quite-true-color picture taken in infrared, green and ultraviolet light. A little misregistered around the edges, and I was unable to completely get rid of the ghosts of the dropouts induced by the effect they had on the raw images' JPEG compression. But it's nice.

[identity profile] mmcirvin.livejournal.com 2005-03-09 10:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Near the top of this picture there are some craters that were given names after they were seen by the Voyagers; they're named out of the Arabian Nights. Of the snowman-like chain of three craters near top center, the biggest is named Dunyazad and the second-biggest is Shahrazad (another spelling of Scheherazade). Shahryar is the really sharp-looking one further up and Sindbad is half-visible on the horizon.

[identity profile] mmcirvin.livejournal.com 2005-03-09 10:48 pm (UTC)(link)
...on the terminator, I should have said: I think it's directly to the right of Shahryar.