Favourite Cassini Image Of Saturn

Greg Bryant · #1 05-07-2005, 08:19 PM

...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] (Paul) · #2 05-07-2005, 08:22 PM

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

slice of heaven · #3 05-07-2005, 08:39 PM

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

Dave47tuc (David) · #4 05-07-2005, 09:22 PM

I voted The Dragon Storm

wow

acropolite (Phil) · #5 05-07-2005, 10:01 PM

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

Chrissyo (Chris) · #6 05-07-2005, 10:56 PM

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

toetoe (Peter) · #7 06-07-2005, 07:08 AM

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

xstream (John) · #8 06-07-2005, 11:10 AM

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

Robby · #9 06-07-2005, 11:57 AM

Dragon Storm without a doubt!

phobos (John) · #10 11-07-2005, 06:47 PM

Herschel: Dead-On

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

ballaratdragons (Ken) · #11 11-07-2005, 06:57 PM

'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 · #12 11-07-2005, 07:54 PM

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 (Mike) · #13 12-07-2005, 06:22 AM

George Lucas was ahead of his time

He must've had a really big telescope at home

tornado33 · #14 13-07-2005, 01:04 PM

I love this , one of the recent raw images
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedi.../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 · #15 20-07-2005, 06:43 PM

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.