Mark McCaughreanDec 30, 2022

Enceladus.

The famous water plumes on the south polar limb, backlit by the Sun with a little extra reflected Saturn glow on one side, all seen against the E-ring.

HDR stack of two monochrome images taken by the ISS NAC on Cassini on 27 November 2015.

Downloaded from the PDS, aligned, processed, cleaned, upscaled by a factor of two, then tinted for aesthetic effect.

Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SSI / Cassini Imaging Team / Mark McCaughrean

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Show threadEyeling
@markmccaughrean Beautiful work
Dec 30, 2022 at 7:50pmWeb
Show threadMark McCaughreanDec 30, 2022
@eyeling Thank you – I haven’t played with raw Cassini data before, so spent an interesting afternoon working through some of the steps, including the HDR stacking to capture the bright limb & fainter jets & Saturn glow. Worked quite nicely 🙂