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I'm just wondering if anyone is planning to work on a texture and/or model for Phoebe. NASA is supposidely getting ready to release some pictures that are much more detailed than previous data made available. A pretty detailed photo was already released


That seems to shed some light on how phoebe appears. It seems to be much more craterous than Celestia's rough sphere model displays it as.

And reading on the NASA website, it seems even more detailed photos, so I was wondering if anyone is intending to try and create a new model from this? I'd try it myself, but it will probably come out looking horrible

Of course, just a few hours after posting this, NASA released the more detailed photos, and even an animation of its full rotation, so at least some basic features of the entire surface are available. It certainly seems like someone who is artistic has enough photos to try and get a more accurate model created.

I dunno... even after looking at all those pictures I still have no clue what Phoebe's 3D shape looks like.

Evil Dr Ganymede wrote:I dunno... even after looking at all those pictures I still have no clue what Phoebe's 3D shape looks like.

Even so,could you make a texture for Phoebe,using for a while the old model?Or you have no clue of a texture,too?The problem is making this picture in a map.I can?t do that because I don?t undertand programming language

danielj wrote:

Evil Dr Ganymede wrote:I dunno... even after looking at all those pictures I still have no clue what Phoebe's 3D shape looks like.

Even so,could you make a texture for Phoebe,using for a while the old model?Or you have no clue of a texture,too?The problem is making this picture in a map.

Do we have full coverage of the surface yet though? It might be theoretically possible to reproject the images, but we don't know the viewing angles and the images may not be at the same resolution and we also don't know where each image ties in with the next.

At some point it will be possible to do it, but I think it's still too early to try now. Certainly the officially released USGS image reprojection software can't even handle Cassini images yet (I'm sure the Cassini imaging team has the right software - it's just that everyone else doesn't yet ) .

Sorry,I misunderstood.I though the only imges would be that released in June 13.But now I am seeing that more images were released in June 14 and the first mosaics are shown.Since it was only a flyby,I was thinking that only a few photos would be taken.
Well,I have to wait to have new textures for Phoebe.

Well, you're right that a few pictures were taken, if you think at least several hundred (if not thousand) are "a few" . The data downlink rate from Cassini is very fast, and there's a lot of bandwidth! So hopefully we'll have a real planetary mission at Saturn instead of the nightmarish crippled thing that Galileo was. (Cassini sent more pictures back on its Jupiter flyby on the way to Saturn than Galileo had taken during its whole tour there!)

Of course I was saying a few released to the general public(half a dozen),in JPL sites.Do they release the pictures in packets,a few per time?