Flyby mosaics
Sep. 11th, 2007 08:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mmcirvinThe Planetary Society and its correspondents are way ahead of me:
A mosaic of the first few images retrieved from close approach to Iapetus.
The view of Saturn from Iapetus.
The bulk of flyby images are still sitting on Cassini's data recorder; the downlinked data that included those close-approach images was mostly a radar swath, which the radar team intends to use as a point of comparison with the Titan radar images (since it's easy to see the surface of Iapetus in visible light, the identity of structures in its radar images should be relatively easy to figure out, which might help them interpret the ones of Titan).
There should be a lot more images later.
A mosaic of the first few images retrieved from close approach to Iapetus.
The view of Saturn from Iapetus.
The bulk of flyby images are still sitting on Cassini's data recorder; the downlinked data that included those close-approach images was mostly a radar swath, which the radar team intends to use as a point of comparison with the Titan radar images (since it's easy to see the surface of Iapetus in visible light, the identity of structures in its radar images should be relatively easy to figure out, which might help them interpret the ones of Titan).
There should be a lot more images later.