«With our improved tracking algorithm, we've been able to extract nearly 120,000 wind vectors from 560 images, giving us an unprecedented picture of Saturn's wind flow at two independent altitudes on a global scale,» said co-author and
imaging team associate John Barbara, also at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies.
«It was all too easy to get used to receiving new images from the Saturn system on a daily basis, seeing new sights, watching things change,» said Elizabeth Turtle,
an imaging team associate at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland.
«Inside the hexagon, there are fewer large haze particles and a concentration of small haze particles, while outside the hexagon, the opposite is true,» Kunio Sayanagi, a Cassini
imaging team associate at Hampton University in Virginia, said in a statement.
«Ever since the lakes and seas were discovered, we've been wondering why they're concentrated at high northern latitudes,» said Elizabeth (Zibi) Turtle, a Cassini
imaging team associate based at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Md. «So, seeing that there's something special about the surface in this region is a big clue to help narrow down the possible explanations.»
While the curtain - like auroras we see at Earth are green at the bottom and red at the top, Cassini's imaging cameras have shown us similar curtain - like auroras at Saturn that are red at the bottom and purple at the top, said Ulyana Dyudina,
an imaging team associate at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif..
Not exact matches
The
team of Marc Walton, research
associate professor of materials science and engineering at Northwestern University, used techniques like hyperspectral
imaging and photometric stereo, which reveals the surface shape of objects.
A
team led by Sophie Scott, a neuroscientist at University College London, used functional magnetic resonance
imaging (fMRI) to determine the neural processing of vocal cues
associated with four emotions: amusement, triumph, fear and disgust.
«I was surprised to see so many sharp edges along the hexagon's outer boundary and the eye - wall of the polar vortex,» said Kunio Sayanagi, an
associate of the Cassini
imaging team based at Hampton University in Virginia, who helped produce the new movie.