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

[mmcirvin]

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.

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[sunburn.livejournal.com]

Are you up to speed on the latest Hoagland lunacy (http://www.enterprisemission.com)? He has taken on Iapetus with the usual, ah, aplomb.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

At this point, we can basically predict what he's going to say about everything beforehand. Hoagland's aliens are like the God of the Gaps; everything not currently explained should be attributed to aliens immediately. If you can attribute some things that are explained as well, that's a bonus. But whenever there's a genuine mystery, those aliens are on the scene.