Cassini and Amateurs Chase Saturn Storms

[Quark]

Hi All,

It's not every day that Australian Amateurs get recognition from NASA for their contributions.

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2010-143&cid=release_2010-143

Regards
Trevor

[Rob_K]

Excellent stuff Trevor, congratulations to you and all involved! :thumbsup:

Cheers -

[trent_julie]

Well done!

[PeterM]

I just love reading this stuff, you guys are just the best of the best, fantastic!

PeterM.

[Quark]

When Bird became part of this endeavor I new his exquisite skills with planetary imaging would make a significant contribution to the task of tracking SED's related storms on Saturn.

That Bird is approx 1,000 km to the East of me has also been significant, whenever a SED's storm has been active one of us has been able to capture it so that we have been able to contribute a steady stream of data to the Cassini RPWS researchers.

There are other amateurs in our team in the Philippines, France and the Netherlands and this is a team effort, but I am very proud that Anthony and I are able to provide data of significant scientific value to this project on such a regular basis.

Trevor

[michaellxv]

Congratulation to the team. That's a fantastic contribution you are making and its great to see it recognised.

[Lester]

Fantastic, that is wonderful news Trevor.

All the best to all involved.