Favourite Cassini Image Of Saturn

[Greg Bryant]

...an easier poll than trying to estimate comet impact craters...:)

Hard to believe, but it's one year since Cassini arrived at Saturn.

On JPL's Cassini website (which I sadly admit to visiting every day since Cassini arrived), they're celebrating by conducting a poll as to what is the favourite image (...thus far - we're only one year into a very long mission).

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/poll/index.cfm

Visit the website. Cast your vote, but hurry before they announce the results. Then come back here and tell us why.

[[1ponders]]

I voted for "The Dragon Storm" But it was a close call with "Saturn in all its splender"

[slice of heaven]

Saturn in all its splender.
A lot of intriging shots, like the wavemaker moon, but I found this one appealing.

[Dave47tuc]

I voted The Dragon Storm :2thumbs: wow :eyepop:

[acropolite]

I voted Unraveling Saturns rings; just love the fine detail.:D

[Chrissyo]

Titan's True Colour for me. Though, it wasn't really taken by Cassini was it. :P :D

[toetoe]

All the pics are great in there own way, but i did vote for "The Dragon Storm".

[xstream]

"Encountering Iapetus", just love that metalic looking walnut!

[Robby]

Dragon Storm without a doubt!

[phobos]

Herschel: Dead-On

Im sure that George Lucas used Mimas as inspiration for the Deathstar! :D

[ballaratdragons]

'Unravelling Saturns Rings' for me! It is a fantastic photo. Shows both Planet and rings close-up and in fine detail. Nice colour too.

[Greg Bryant]

Phobos,

The Mimas image is a great shot.

What's interesting is that Star Wars and the Death Star came out in 1977, a few years before any probe imaged Mimas and the whopper of a crater. So when the images came in, everyone immediately thought - "Death Star".

[iceman]

George Lucas was ahead of his time :D He must've had a really big telescope at home :)

[tornado33]

I love this , one of the recent raw images
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS12/N00036832.jpg
You see rings in incredible detail, if thats not enough, you see ring shadows on the planet itself behind, amazing atuff.
Scott

[Greg Bryant]

The results are in.

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/poll/index.cfm

Titan's true colour (as taken by Huygens - good point, Chrissyo) is the winner. It's interesting to look at the graph to see the proportions of votes that each image received.