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   Message 743 of 1,217   
   Rolo to Todd Bandrowsky   
   Re: Cassini Images Blurry or Titan a Tou   
   27 Dec 04 00:28:02   
   
   From: rolandop@yahoo.com   
      
   The cloud cover is so pervassive and thick (as well as turbulent)   
   that clear photography is next to impossible. What we have may be   
   close to the best we get? The next trick is seeing anything within the   
   clouds or below the upper cloud layers. Everyone involved has known this   
   was going to be problematic all along. The problem is:  they just   
   didnt say so straight out, leaving a lot of confused and some angry   
   people! And "the media", assholes that they are now!, didn't even   
   bother to ask or pursue this - FOX NEWS included. It's a major   
   botch, I think. But in the state of near anarchy we are now in in   
   America is a major feat Cassini and Huygens are up there at all   
   and working as well as they are. Somebody was doing his and her jobs   
   right. Not everyone's programing was faulty!   
      
   John   
      
      
      
   Todd Bandrowsky wrote:   
      
   > I went through the Cassini images from Saturn and Titan and I was   
   > expecting to find a great variety of Voyager or Pioneer color   
   > tour-de-forces but instead there are a great deal of blurry black and   
   > whites.  Is this because the bulk of the images are for science   
   > gathering at different filter levels, not necessarily for sight   
   > seeing?  And is it that Titan is just a difficult target?  I'm not   
   > being critical, I'm just curious.   
      
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