Enceladus update

Just a quick note: Emily, at The Planetary Society Blog, just posted a way cool mosaic made up of four pictures from Cassini showing the Enceladus icescape. I love the perspective on it, and how you can tell you’re looking down on the tiny moon from an oblique angle. It’s quite lovely. Go look!

And in case you missed it, here are links to 3D red/green anaglyphs of Enceladus too. Awesome.

November 22nd, 2009 2:22 PM Tags: Cassini, Emily, Enceladus
by Phil Plait in Astronomy, Pretty pictures | 7 comments | RSS feed | Trackback >

7 Responses to “Enceladus update”

1. Thedepressingstatistician Says:
November 22nd, 2009 at 3:27 pm

Rather reminiscent of Hoth if you ask me.
2. Louis Bookbinder Says:
November 22nd, 2009 at 3:37 pm

you moved the link. It now links back to your original Enceladus page. No anaglyphs, not even black/white.
3. Jack Hagerty Says:
November 22nd, 2009 at 4:51 pm

It looks like the San Andreas fault just north of the Tehachapi’s.

- Jack
4. Harold Says:
November 22nd, 2009 at 5:01 pm

Those snowmobilers are everywhere, aren’t they?
5. Matt Says:
November 22nd, 2009 at 7:19 pm

What’s the resolution on these images? It looks like it could be a picture of an unplowed parking lot with about 5 inches of snow after a few cars have gone through it…but I’m sure the smallest object on this picture is probably hundreds of feet across.
6. MadScientist Says:
November 23rd, 2009 at 2:21 am

Mmmm … enchiladas.

That cold moon just gave me another idea for geoengineering. Since instruments have been landed on relatively small space rocks, perhaps boosters can be landed, attached, and used to slam those rocks into the earth. Global warming fixed! Well, assuming we can get the rocks to hit at high enough speeds.
7. Charlie Young Says:
November 23rd, 2009 at 12:56 pm

That almost looks like an arrow (pointing South, perhaps).

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