First Images From 50-km Enceladus Flyby 95
CheshireCatCO writes "The first pictures from yesterday's flyby of Enceladus are now public. At closest approach, Cassini was set spinning to cancel out the apparent motion of Enceladus so as to capture unsmeared images during the 40,000-mph flyby. Although it wasn't clear that this would work (errors in pointing could easily have made the cameras miss their targets), the maneuver panned out beautifully, producing spectacular images of the surface. Images show the 'tiger stripes' at the south pole, including at least one location that has been identified as a source of a jet, as well as considerable vertical relief, easily visible thanks to the low sun-angle near the south pole at present. Processed, enhanced images should follow shortly."
A pity (Score:4, Funny)
I see no towns and roads...
Re:A pity (Score:5, Funny)
Patience dude, Google Street View hasn't even finished Mars yet!
Re:A pity (Score:4, Funny)
Re:A pity (Score:5, Funny)
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/12/2036254 [slashdot.org]
Re:science and perspective, and what a pity (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Why is this free? (Score:5, Funny)
Dude, Enceladus is actually property of the British Crown. One of the conditions of allowing you Yanks up there to take a look is that the pictures are distributed for free.
"enhanced" photos (Score:1, Funny)
If you see fireworks in the photos, they are probably photoshopped.
Re:A pity (Score:3, Funny)
Think about how many bibles you could have sent to Iraq with that Cassini money!
Spreading the good news is more important than peeping dead space rocks.
Isn't it?
Yummy. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Eat my goatse'd penis! (Score:2, Funny)
This is sad. You have an article with the phrase "vertical relief" in it and you can't come up with anything even remotely humorous? For shame, AC... for shame.
Looks like... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:science and perspective, and what a pity (Score:1, Funny)
Re:science and perspective, and what a pity (Score:3, Funny)
For comparison, this is slightly less than 1/330th the budget to-date for the American war effort in Iraq.
However, let the record show that the photographs revealed *NO* al-Qaeda bases on Enceladus. Had there been, just imagine the cost of getting Space Marines up there to clear the place out.
So, does this count (Score:4, Funny)
as a drive-by shooting?