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wanderingspace
http://wanderingspace.net
A graphic designers blog specializing in the best of planetary mission images. featuring missions old and new.
- Added on: Jul 26th, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Thomas Romer
- Listed in: Science Photography
- Tags: space planets mars NASA saturn moons
Recent Posts
Through the Plumes!
Gordan of course....
The Fountains of Enceladus
This has to be one of the greatest, most alien images ever taken from robotic spacecraft. It approaches how I might expect Enceladus to be depicted if it were in a Star Trek movie. As if the plumes at the edge of the disk back-lit by the Sun were not...
Rosetta Skims Earth
On its way to a 2014 rendezvous with comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft, with JPL instruments on board, flew past Earth today to pick up energy....
The Plumes of Enceladus in Color (kind of)
Like the Saturnshine image posted earlier, this is only an estimation of a true color image. Five sources were used to compile this image; clear 1, clear 2, red, blue and another clear filtered image was used to replace the missing green to round it ...
Enceladus at 9,988 km
More coming. Looks like a nice encounter....
Dueling Enceladian Light Sources
Gordan U compiled this image of Enceladus lit both by Sun and Saturnshine. The side lit by reflected light from Saturn is in infrared and in the original appeared in a green hue. I took some liberties and imaged it as I would imagine it really would ...
