Holiday Snaps from Saturn

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Holiday Snaps from Saturn
John W. Weiss
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Cassini
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Saturn
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Saturn from Above
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Wavy Clouds
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Storms
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Titan's Purple Haze
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Mapping the Surface
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A Lake
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A BIG Lake
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Sea on Titan
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Iapetus
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Enceladus South Pole
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Tiger Stripes
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What was That?
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Er...Multiple Jets!
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Skeet-Shoot of Enceladus
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Plume Rings
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Feeding the E Ring
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Dark Side of the Rings
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D Ring
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Gores in the F Ring
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F Ring Spiral
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Pan
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New Moon Daphnis
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More Moons?
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Co-orbital Moons
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Resonances and Waves
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Whats that?
Propeller Features in the A ring
The gravitational signature of a "moonlet" in the
rings
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Shapes
S/2005 S1
Pan
Daphnis
Pan
Atlas
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Simulations Support our Theory
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Spokes
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The Future

• Now in two-year extended mission
• (Equinox Mission", officially)
• Planning a Solstice Mission"
• Hoped to go until 2017 (Saturn Solstice)
• Saturn equinox in August 2009
• Very good for ring studies and lightening
  searches
• Two close Enceladus flybys next month