Friday, June 23, 2006

Videos from Saturn


On the Cassini-Huygens page are several videos of Saturn's moons:
  • teeny-tiny, walnut-shaped Pan inside the rings

  • crater-covered Rhea slips between the moons Mimas and Enceladus - catch how Saturn illuminates the night sides of Mimas

  • little Epimethius passing massive Titan and smallish Dione

  • Janus and Epimethius, both quite small, passing Dione

  • and my favorite, Rhea occulting Saturn


That one begins with the crescent of Rhea, a sliver of light, under the straight unlit slash of the rings (which cast their striped shadows on Saturn's northern hemisphere) off to the side of Saturn's much larger crescent, shows Rhea drifting until it is a black sphere of shadow against Saturn and then continuing until once again it is only a crescent, this time against Saturn's own dark night...

They're all mesmerizing.

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