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Renderings of Saturn as seen from its moons
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David Seal's rendering of the surface of Pandora, one of the shepherds of the F ring. The F ring is brightly shown on the left hand side of the picture, and Prometheus, the companion shepherd can be seen farther on down the ring on the inner side. By David Seal
Ithaca Chasma, a huge trench which extends from near the north pole down almost all the way to the south pole on Tethys. It's average width is 100 kilometers and it is 4-5 kilometers (2-3 miles) deep. By David Seal
David Seal's rendering is drawn from the floor of Aeneas crater, showing Dione's icy surface and the irregular features inside the crater viewed from space. Saturn, Titan, and the Cassini spacecraft are all visible in the sky.
This is a narrow angle field-of-view artist's rendering from the bottom of a large ice crevasse on the surface of Phoebe, the least known of all the Saturnian satellites. By David Seal
This is a computer-rendered image of Cassini during the Saturn Orbit Insertion (SOI) maneuver, just after the main engine has begun firing. The spacecraft is moving out of the plane of the page and to the right (firing to reduce its spacecraft velocity with respect to Saturn) and has just crossed the ring plane.
The SOI maneuver, which is approximately 90 minutes long, will allow Cassini to be captured by Saturn's gravity into a five-month orbit. Cassini's close proximity to the planet after the maneuver offers a unique opportunity to observe Saturn and its rings at extremely high resolution.
These renderings are courtesy Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Copyright (c) California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA. All rights reserved. Based on government-sponsored research under contract NAS7-1407.
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This page was last updated on: August 7, 2002
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