Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute : “Iapetus is one of the weirdest things in the solar system, said Levision, “and as we study it more and more, it gets weirder and weirder.”
A Blue Northern Mystery (January 16, 2009)
...(this article was found on my first stop on the Saturn search on the North Pole ;where Searches related to SATURN's north pole; (Specific' for "saturn's strange hexagon" and another "hexagon on saturn explained" ), google images; images leading to the fields of color and sound...)...
The article, A Blue Northern Mystery (January 16, 2009) : Saturn's north pole retains its bluish hue in this true color Cassini image, even as northern winter is coming to an end.
The azure blue of Saturn's winter hemisphere during the early Cassini prime mission still remains a puzzle. Over the course of time, the blue color has faded and has been replaced with bands of other hues
(see Saturn ... Four Years On). (This captivating natural color view was created from images collected shortly after Cassini began its extended Equinox Mission in July 2008. It can be contrasted with earlier images from the spacecraft's four-year prime mission that show the shadow of Saturn's rings first draped high over the planet's northern hemisphere, then shifting southward as northern summer changed to spring (see Serenity of Saturn and Sliding Shadows ). )
The north pole is in shadow here, but a portion of its oscillating hexagonal pattern is visible. Storms create the look of a pockmarked surface.
Images taken using red, green and blue spectral filters were combined to create this natural color view. The images were acquired with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on Nov. 29, 2008 at a distance of approximately 1.098 million kilometers (683,000 miles) from Saturn and at a Sun-Saturn-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 38 degrees. Image scale is 62 kilometers (39 miles) per pixel.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/ . The Cassini imaging team homepage is at http://ciclops.org/ .
Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_137.html
A Blue Northern Mystery (January 16, 2009)
...(this article was found on my first stop on the Saturn search on the North Pole ;where Searches related to SATURN's north pole; (Specific' for "saturn's strange hexagon" and another "hexagon on saturn explained" ), google images; images leading to the fields of color and sound...)...The article, A Blue Northern Mystery (January 16, 2009) : Saturn's north pole retains its bluish hue in this true color Cassini image, even as northern winter is coming to an end.
The azure blue of Saturn's winter hemisphere during the early Cassini prime mission still remains a puzzle. Over the course of time, the blue color has faded and has been replaced with bands of other hues
(see Saturn ... Four Years On). (This captivating natural color view was created from images collected shortly after Cassini began its extended Equinox Mission in July 2008. It can be contrasted with earlier images from the spacecraft's four-year prime mission that show the shadow of Saturn's rings first draped high over the planet's northern hemisphere, then shifting southward as northern summer changed to spring (see Serenity of Saturn and Sliding Shadows ). )The north pole is in shadow here, but a portion of its oscillating hexagonal pattern is visible. Storms create the look of a pockmarked surface.
Images taken using red, green and blue spectral filters were combined to create this natural color view. The images were acquired with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on Nov. 29, 2008 at a distance of approximately 1.098 million kilometers (683,000 miles) from Saturn and at a Sun-Saturn-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 38 degrees. Image scale is 62 kilometers (39 miles) per pixel.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/ . The Cassini imaging team homepage is at http://ciclops.org/ .
Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_137.html
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