3 wonderful mosaic images have just been released by CICLOPS of the rings of Saturn close-up. Celestia's solarsys.ssc will need to be updated, they found 2 new rings! here is the link to the images:
http://ciclops.org/view.php?id=2230
Close-ups of saturn's rings from Cassini
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Re: Close-ups of saturn's rings from Cassini
Starshipwright wrote:3 wonderful mosaic images have just been released by CICLOPS of the rings of Saturn close-up. Celestia's solarsys.ssc will need to be updated, they found 2 new rings! here is the link to the images:
http://ciclops.org/view.php?id=2230
Some time ago I started developing an add-on.
Here is the link to the topic:
http://shatters.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9668
As it was declared politically incorrect, I stopped publishing further progress.
The original version is still available somewhere in the thread.
There is a lot of work in it for an accurate positioning and profiling.
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