Re: OT: Cassini photo

From: Pat Flannery (flanner_at_daktel.com)
Date: 03/20/05 

Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 22:46:10 -0600

meiza wrote:

>But when will we see a photo with four moons? Or even more?
>(one-pixel dots don't count. :) )
>
>

I noticed a couple of small few-pixel "what's-it's" on that photo. On
the full resolution one they appear to be of irregular shape. I wonder
if they are lightning in Saturn's atmosphere, as I assume we are seeing
the moons silhouetted against the unlit part of the planet.

>Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Dione, Rhea, Titan, Hyperion and
>Iapetus are the major moons of Saturn, and then there's
>a bunch of smaller ones (~less than 100km) so there's
>plenty to photograph, if they just happen to line up
>nicely.
>
>

They're getting great shots so far; I wonder if we would have had some
nice shots like this from Galileo if the antennae had unfolded and they
would have been able to transmit at full data rate?

Pat

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