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Old 28-11-2012, 04:44 PM
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Incredible Raw Image of Saturn’s Swirling North Pole

Incredible Raw Image of Saturn’s Swirling North Pole

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Old 28-11-2012, 04:57 PM
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Yeah, pretty cool Carlos!

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Woaw ! imagine falling into that !
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Old 28-11-2012, 06:39 PM
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Spectacular!
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http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily...-pole-raw.html

So cool.
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Old 29-11-2012, 10:11 AM
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Old 29-11-2012, 10:28 AM
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I just had a muck-around with using the different filter images off the cassini raw images site and putting them into the colour channels of a single image. Then a bit of hue adjustment. Would need lots more work to look really good but interesting anyway.
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Old 29-11-2012, 10:30 AM
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Fantastic!
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Old 29-11-2012, 11:09 AM
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I agree Hugh nice contrasting colours!
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I think the colours highlight much of the detail-good stuff, Hugh!
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One of the best Cassini images yet I think, absolutely stunning. The 3D structure of the cloud tops is impressive.
It's also fascinating how the atmosphere swirls so precisely around the pole on this massive planet, the image scale is about 3kms per pixel so the whole image is only a few thousand kms across.
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Old 30-11-2012, 04:00 AM
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Now that's how you make porridge.

Saturn’s Strange Hexagon – In Living Color!

http://www.universetoday.com/98699/s...-living-color/


If the clouds, colours and hexagon swirls are not enough, then just admire the way Saturns shadow is cast on the rings ... wow love it!

How impressive is it going to be once Juno reaches Jupiter and we start getting pictures like these?!?!?
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