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The Mound

A strange “mound” like feature seen on Enceladus

On Cassini’s close shave of Enceladus it captured and image of what seems to be a strange tall mound of something at middle right. Look at how long a shadow it casts.

This is also in semi-false/true color using infrared, green and ultraviolet for RGB. Can you tell from its richness of color?!

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3 Responses to “The Mound”

  1. Gordan Says:
    August 14th, 2008 at 1:07 pm

    I *knew* I saw some color fringing from jpeg noise on what looked like a grayscale image. Then I read the caption. Weird, the stripes should have a more pronounced color than that… Did you use the IR1 or IR3 filter - looks to me like IR1? You need the far infrared IR3 one where the crystalline ice absorbs light to get that minty color.

  2. thomas Says:
    August 14th, 2008 at 1:57 pm

    i believe i used the IR1… my desire for “real” (though a pointless pursuit) usually leads me to want to grab the most neutral of filters. i actually desaturated a bit too to correct to the more natural grey that enceladus really seems to be.

  3. niko stumpo Says:
    August 14th, 2008 at 7:35 pm

    Ciao!
    socool,
    I was reading your blog, looking all the amazing pictures,
    and then reading I found out that you founded COPPING BLOCK,
    I have been designing for more then 10 years now, and your studio
    has always been a favourite of mine,
    since the late nineties,
    awesome works you do and did,
    this is all
    have a good one
    ciao
    ns

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