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Black gesso, torn scraps, cut outs from an envelope I received in the mail, journaling with a white extra fine sharpie paint pen...
*SOLD* The Complexity of Self Mandala - Polymer clay and mixed media. What seems simple from afar reveals infinite layers of detail when examined closely.
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Complexity rules,
the scent of aged forest,
pine cones ready the fall.
Photographer Notes: This is your typical grab shot while hiking in Yosemite Valley. Aperture setting, f/6.3, 1/125, 45mm. I was reading from Ansel's book the other day and interestingly he stated that most people believed his work to be "realistic" but he contended that he manipulated photographic controls in his prints to "evoke what I saw and felt." At first I thought this way too saturated but this is what I saw and felt. I want this level of color, detail, complexity in this image!
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Edited Cassini montage of PR images of the scalloped edges of a gap in the rings of Saturn where the moon Daphnis is making things complex. Color/processing variant.
Image source: photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA23167
Original caption: This enhanced-color image mosaic shows Daphnis, one of the moons embedded in Saturn's rings, in the Keeler gap on the sunlit side of the rings. Daphnis is seen kicking up three waves in the gap's outer edge. Three wave crests of diminishing sizes trail the moon. In each successive crest, the shape of the wave changes as the ring particles within the crest interact and collide with each other. A thin strand of ring material to the lower left of Daphnis is newly visible in this image, and there are intricate features that also hadn't been previously observed in the third wave crest downstream (see Figure 1).
Cassini was at a very shallow angle above the rings (only about 15 degrees) when this image was taken. The resulting foreshortening makes it difficult to tell the difference in this image between features representing vertical structure and those representing radial, or outward from Saturn, structure within the ring plane. Nonetheless, Cassini imaging scientists have determined that the waves in the gap are largely vertical; compare this to the shadows that they were seen to cast during equinox (see PIA11547, PIA11653, PIA11655 and PIA11656). The thin strand of material is also probably vertical. Daphnis itself is actually five times smaller than the width of the gap, but it looks bigger here because of the foreshortening.
The color in this image comes from using Imaging Science Subsystem images obtained by applying different filters to "paint" color onto the black-and-white version of this view previously released as PIA17212. The color of the ring region outward of the Keeler Gap (the "trans-Keeler region," in the lower portion of this image) is noticeably different from the color inward from the gap (upper portion of this image). In visible light, this color difference sharply coincides with the gap, while near-infrared Visible and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS) images show some bleeding of the trans-Keeler region into the region inward from the gap. The reasons for the sharp change in color are mysterious, but they probably have more to do with a change in particle sizes and other properties than with a change in composition.
The images in this mosaic were taken in visible light, using the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera at a distance of approximately 17,000 miles (28,000 kilometers) from Daphnis and at a Sun-Daphnis-spacecraft angle, or phase angle, of 71 degrees (for the color images, 58 degrees). Image scale is 550 feet (170 meters) per pixel.
The image was produced by Tilmann Denk at Freie Universität in Berlin.
Figure 1 shows a closeup of the third wave crest (toward the far left in the color image) focusing on detail scientists hadn't seen before, with multiple strands of ring material visible. The image shows how the ring material behaves after losing the structure Daphnis triggered and goes back to interacting with itself.
The ribbon of material that appears to be protruding into the gap in the right-hand portion of the image is probably actually soaring above the ring plane. Toward the left-hand part of the image, that same ribbon of material dives below the ring plane and becomes obscured by the main part of the rings, which is why it disappears from view.
The image shown in Figure 1 was taken in visible light, using the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera at a distance of approximately 15,000 miles (23,000 kilometers) from Daphnis and at a Sun-Daphnis-spacecraft angle, or phase angle, of 94 degrees. Image scale is 520 feet (160 meters) per pixel. Unlike the main image, the image in Figure 1 was taken on the unlit side of the rings.
The Cassini mission is a cooperative project of NASA, ESA (the European Space Agency) and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of Caltech in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit solarsystem.nasa.gov/cassini. The Cassini imaging team homepage is at ciclops.org.
and really, for no other reason... than this song makes me smile, and reminds me of my days-gone-by living in duluth as a technopopper :-) thank you thomas dolby, you left your mark. take a listen and a look... if you feel like it :-)
*** hope to be around seeing you and your fab work soon, but sadly, been outta commish for the past few days... sidelined by a funky a/c adapter cord to my laptop... estimated replacement arrival: tuesday or wednesday :-( ***
you know... you never fully appreciate what you have... til it's gone.
or the adapter goes wonky.
truth.
Croton Plant. Botanical Name: Codiaeum variegatum pictum.
Taken at The Regency, Laguna Woods, California. © 2013 All Rights Reserved.
My images are not to be used, copied, edited, or blogged without my explicit permission.
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Have a terrific new week, my Flickr friends! Thanks so much for coming by!
From the brief, odd stretch when PopPhoto were billing the title as Photography: the Magazine of Popular Photography.
My tags include the rival publications which apparently they had hoovered up, based on other fine print below this.
OpTic Gaming get in the action early Saturday morning to test out the systems and get a feel for the sound proof booths.
Complexity Group Grapes On a Train 2013
Left to right:
Nautilus Sauvignon Blanc, Marlborough 2012
Cloudy Bay Sauvignon Blanc, Marlborough 2012
Mud House The Woolshed Vineyard, Sauvignon Blanc, Marlborough 2013
Villa Maria Reserve Wairau, Sauvignon Blanc, Marlborough 2012
Nautilus "Winemakers Selection" Sauvignon Blanc, Marlborough 2009
Nautilus "Winemakers Selection" Sauvignon Blanc, Marlborough 2012
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Sometimes I actually get out there and take photos for the historic record. This was snapped while walking from the Museum to the Library in pursuit of the history of an inner city building about to be restored to its 1905 glory.
A southeasterly view from Montreal Street at the Worcester Street intersection. To the Left is the Art Gallery, with a new office block rising on the Canterbury Club site to the centre.
Why do you need to do 2 actions when switching modi? If I checkin at GVB can't I be automatically checked out of NS and vice versa?
Not to mention the forest of consoles greeting you when you get on the platform. Some of these will be removed in due time, but still not very KISS.
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How many deal with complexity - detail of a Graphic Recording by Mathias Weitbrecht
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Edited Cassini montage of PR images of the scalloped edges of a gap in the rings of Saturn where the moon Daphnis is making things complex. Inverted grayscale variant.
Image source: photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA23167
Original caption: This enhanced-color image mosaic shows Daphnis, one of the moons embedded in Saturn's rings, in the Keeler gap on the sunlit side of the rings. Daphnis is seen kicking up three waves in the gap's outer edge. Three wave crests of diminishing sizes trail the moon. In each successive crest, the shape of the wave changes as the ring particles within the crest interact and collide with each other. A thin strand of ring material to the lower left of Daphnis is newly visible in this image, and there are intricate features that also hadn't been previously observed in the third wave crest downstream (see Figure 1).
Cassini was at a very shallow angle above the rings (only about 15 degrees) when this image was taken. The resulting foreshortening makes it difficult to tell the difference in this image between features representing vertical structure and those representing radial, or outward from Saturn, structure within the ring plane. Nonetheless, Cassini imaging scientists have determined that the waves in the gap are largely vertical; compare this to the shadows that they were seen to cast during equinox (see PIA11547, PIA11653, PIA11655 and PIA11656). The thin strand of material is also probably vertical. Daphnis itself is actually five times smaller than the width of the gap, but it looks bigger here because of the foreshortening.
The color in this image comes from using Imaging Science Subsystem images obtained by applying different filters to "paint" color onto the black-and-white version of this view previously released as PIA17212. The color of the ring region outward of the Keeler Gap (the "trans-Keeler region," in the lower portion of this image) is noticeably different from the color inward from the gap (upper portion of this image). In visible light, this color difference sharply coincides with the gap, while near-infrared Visible and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS) images show some bleeding of the trans-Keeler region into the region inward from the gap. The reasons for the sharp change in color are mysterious, but they probably have more to do with a change in particle sizes and other properties than with a change in composition.
The images in this mosaic were taken in visible light, using the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera at a distance of approximately 17,000 miles (28,000 kilometers) from Daphnis and at a Sun-Daphnis-spacecraft angle, or phase angle, of 71 degrees (for the color images, 58 degrees). Image scale is 550 feet (170 meters) per pixel.
The image was produced by Tilmann Denk at Freie Universität in Berlin.
Figure 1 shows a closeup of the third wave crest (toward the far left in the color image) focusing on detail scientists hadn't seen before, with multiple strands of ring material visible. The image shows how the ring material behaves after losing the structure Daphnis triggered and goes back to interacting with itself.
The ribbon of material that appears to be protruding into the gap in the right-hand portion of the image is probably actually soaring above the ring plane. Toward the left-hand part of the image, that same ribbon of material dives below the ring plane and becomes obscured by the main part of the rings, which is why it disappears from view.
The image shown in Figure 1 was taken in visible light, using the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera at a distance of approximately 15,000 miles (23,000 kilometers) from Daphnis and at a Sun-Daphnis-spacecraft angle, or phase angle, of 94 degrees. Image scale is 520 feet (160 meters) per pixel. Unlike the main image, the image in Figure 1 was taken on the unlit side of the rings.
The Cassini mission is a cooperative project of NASA, ESA (the European Space Agency) and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of Caltech in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit solarsystem.nasa.gov/cassini. The Cassini imaging team homepage is at ciclops.org.
Edited Cassini montage of PR images of the scalloped edges of a gap in the rings of Saturn where the moon Daphnis is making things complex. Color/processing variant.
Image source: photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA23167
Original caption: This enhanced-color image mosaic shows Daphnis, one of the moons embedded in Saturn's rings, in the Keeler gap on the sunlit side of the rings. Daphnis is seen kicking up three waves in the gap's outer edge. Three wave crests of diminishing sizes trail the moon. In each successive crest, the shape of the wave changes as the ring particles within the crest interact and collide with each other. A thin strand of ring material to the lower left of Daphnis is newly visible in this image, and there are intricate features that also hadn't been previously observed in the third wave crest downstream (see Figure 1).
Cassini was at a very shallow angle above the rings (only about 15 degrees) when this image was taken. The resulting foreshortening makes it difficult to tell the difference in this image between features representing vertical structure and those representing radial, or outward from Saturn, structure within the ring plane. Nonetheless, Cassini imaging scientists have determined that the waves in the gap are largely vertical; compare this to the shadows that they were seen to cast during equinox (see PIA11547, PIA11653, PIA11655 and PIA11656). The thin strand of material is also probably vertical. Daphnis itself is actually five times smaller than the width of the gap, but it looks bigger here because of the foreshortening.
The color in this image comes from using Imaging Science Subsystem images obtained by applying different filters to "paint" color onto the black-and-white version of this view previously released as PIA17212. The color of the ring region outward of the Keeler Gap (the "trans-Keeler region," in the lower portion of this image) is noticeably different from the color inward from the gap (upper portion of this image). In visible light, this color difference sharply coincides with the gap, while near-infrared Visible and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS) images show some bleeding of the trans-Keeler region into the region inward from the gap. The reasons for the sharp change in color are mysterious, but they probably have more to do with a change in particle sizes and other properties than with a change in composition.
The images in this mosaic were taken in visible light, using the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera at a distance of approximately 17,000 miles (28,000 kilometers) from Daphnis and at a Sun-Daphnis-spacecraft angle, or phase angle, of 71 degrees (for the color images, 58 degrees). Image scale is 550 feet (170 meters) per pixel.
The image was produced by Tilmann Denk at Freie Universität in Berlin.
Figure 1 shows a closeup of the third wave crest (toward the far left in the color image) focusing on detail scientists hadn't seen before, with multiple strands of ring material visible. The image shows how the ring material behaves after losing the structure Daphnis triggered and goes back to interacting with itself.
The ribbon of material that appears to be protruding into the gap in the right-hand portion of the image is probably actually soaring above the ring plane. Toward the left-hand part of the image, that same ribbon of material dives below the ring plane and becomes obscured by the main part of the rings, which is why it disappears from view.
The image shown in Figure 1 was taken in visible light, using the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera at a distance of approximately 15,000 miles (23,000 kilometers) from Daphnis and at a Sun-Daphnis-spacecraft angle, or phase angle, of 94 degrees. Image scale is 520 feet (160 meters) per pixel. Unlike the main image, the image in Figure 1 was taken on the unlit side of the rings.
The Cassini mission is a cooperative project of NASA, ESA (the European Space Agency) and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of Caltech in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit solarsystem.nasa.gov/cassini. The Cassini imaging team homepage is at ciclops.org.
Edited Cassini montage of PR images of the scalloped edges of a gap in the rings of Saturn where the moon Daphnis is making things complex. Color/processing variant.
Image source: photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA23167
Original caption: This enhanced-color image mosaic shows Daphnis, one of the moons embedded in Saturn's rings, in the Keeler gap on the sunlit side of the rings. Daphnis is seen kicking up three waves in the gap's outer edge. Three wave crests of diminishing sizes trail the moon. In each successive crest, the shape of the wave changes as the ring particles within the crest interact and collide with each other. A thin strand of ring material to the lower left of Daphnis is newly visible in this image, and there are intricate features that also hadn't been previously observed in the third wave crest downstream (see Figure 1).
Cassini was at a very shallow angle above the rings (only about 15 degrees) when this image was taken. The resulting foreshortening makes it difficult to tell the difference in this image between features representing vertical structure and those representing radial, or outward from Saturn, structure within the ring plane. Nonetheless, Cassini imaging scientists have determined that the waves in the gap are largely vertical; compare this to the shadows that they were seen to cast during equinox (see PIA11547, PIA11653, PIA11655 and PIA11656). The thin strand of material is also probably vertical. Daphnis itself is actually five times smaller than the width of the gap, but it looks bigger here because of the foreshortening.
The color in this image comes from using Imaging Science Subsystem images obtained by applying different filters to "paint" color onto the black-and-white version of this view previously released as PIA17212. The color of the ring region outward of the Keeler Gap (the "trans-Keeler region," in the lower portion of this image) is noticeably different from the color inward from the gap (upper portion of this image). In visible light, this color difference sharply coincides with the gap, while near-infrared Visible and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS) images show some bleeding of the trans-Keeler region into the region inward from the gap. The reasons for the sharp change in color are mysterious, but they probably have more to do with a change in particle sizes and other properties than with a change in composition.
The images in this mosaic were taken in visible light, using the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera at a distance of approximately 17,000 miles (28,000 kilometers) from Daphnis and at a Sun-Daphnis-spacecraft angle, or phase angle, of 71 degrees (for the color images, 58 degrees). Image scale is 550 feet (170 meters) per pixel.
The image was produced by Tilmann Denk at Freie Universität in Berlin.
Figure 1 shows a closeup of the third wave crest (toward the far left in the color image) focusing on detail scientists hadn't seen before, with multiple strands of ring material visible. The image shows how the ring material behaves after losing the structure Daphnis triggered and goes back to interacting with itself.
The ribbon of material that appears to be protruding into the gap in the right-hand portion of the image is probably actually soaring above the ring plane. Toward the left-hand part of the image, that same ribbon of material dives below the ring plane and becomes obscured by the main part of the rings, which is why it disappears from view.
The image shown in Figure 1 was taken in visible light, using the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera at a distance of approximately 15,000 miles (23,000 kilometers) from Daphnis and at a Sun-Daphnis-spacecraft angle, or phase angle, of 94 degrees. Image scale is 520 feet (160 meters) per pixel. Unlike the main image, the image in Figure 1 was taken on the unlit side of the rings.
The Cassini mission is a cooperative project of NASA, ESA (the European Space Agency) and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of Caltech in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit solarsystem.nasa.gov/cassini. The Cassini imaging team homepage is at ciclops.org.
Congratulations to Kate Rivers, who beat out thousands of artists to appear in the West edition of New American Paintings 2014. An excerpt from her artist statement:
"My work is abstract, focused on color and texture. All the work is structurally dense, complex, and layered—a metaphor for the complexity of obsession. Collage is the fundamental medium. Frequently, the collage is combined with oil stick, painting, and machine-and hand-stitching. Scale is extremely important. While many pieces are small, my goal is to construct mural-size works created from either books or merchandise tags..."
Read more here- www.thematthewsgallery.com/Images/Files/Kate-Rivers-New-A...
Edited Cassini montage of PR images of the scalloped edges of a gap in the rings of Saturn where the moon Daphnis is making things complex. This image shows a close-up of one crest in the rings.
Image source: photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA23167
Original caption: This enhanced-color image mosaic shows Daphnis, one of the moons embedded in Saturn's rings, in the Keeler gap on the sunlit side of the rings. Daphnis is seen kicking up three waves in the gap's outer edge. Three wave crests of diminishing sizes trail the moon. In each successive crest, the shape of the wave changes as the ring particles within the crest interact and collide with each other. A thin strand of ring material to the lower left of Daphnis is newly visible in this image, and there are intricate features that also hadn't been previously observed in the third wave crest downstream (see Figure 1).
Cassini was at a very shallow angle above the rings (only about 15 degrees) when this image was taken. The resulting foreshortening makes it difficult to tell the difference in this image between features representing vertical structure and those representing radial, or outward from Saturn, structure within the ring plane. Nonetheless, Cassini imaging scientists have determined that the waves in the gap are largely vertical; compare this to the shadows that they were seen to cast during equinox (see PIA11547, PIA11653, PIA11655 and PIA11656). The thin strand of material is also probably vertical. Daphnis itself is actually five times smaller than the width of the gap, but it looks bigger here because of the foreshortening.
The color in this image comes from using Imaging Science Subsystem images obtained by applying different filters to "paint" color onto the black-and-white version of this view previously released as PIA17212. The color of the ring region outward of the Keeler Gap (the "trans-Keeler region," in the lower portion of this image) is noticeably different from the color inward from the gap (upper portion of this image). In visible light, this color difference sharply coincides with the gap, while near-infrared Visible and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS) images show some bleeding of the trans-Keeler region into the region inward from the gap. The reasons for the sharp change in color are mysterious, but they probably have more to do with a change in particle sizes and other properties than with a change in composition.
The images in this mosaic were taken in visible light, using the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera at a distance of approximately 17,000 miles (28,000 kilometers) from Daphnis and at a Sun-Daphnis-spacecraft angle, or phase angle, of 71 degrees (for the color images, 58 degrees). Image scale is 550 feet (170 meters) per pixel.
The image was produced by Tilmann Denk at Freie Universität in Berlin.
Figure 1 shows a closeup of the third wave crest (toward the far left in the color image) focusing on detail scientists hadn't seen before, with multiple strands of ring material visible. The image shows how the ring material behaves after losing the structure Daphnis triggered and goes back to interacting with itself.
The ribbon of material that appears to be protruding into the gap in the right-hand portion of the image is probably actually soaring above the ring plane. Toward the left-hand part of the image, that same ribbon of material dives below the ring plane and becomes obscured by the main part of the rings, which is why it disappears from view.
The image shown in Figure 1 was taken in visible light, using the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera at a distance of approximately 15,000 miles (23,000 kilometers) from Daphnis and at a Sun-Daphnis-spacecraft angle, or phase angle, of 94 degrees. Image scale is 520 feet (160 meters) per pixel. Unlike the main image, the image in Figure 1 was taken on the unlit side of the rings.
The Cassini mission is a cooperative project of NASA, ESA (the European Space Agency) and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of Caltech in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit solarsystem.nasa.gov/cassini. The Cassini imaging team homepage is at ciclops.org.
Edited Cassini montage of PR images of the scalloped edges of a gap in the rings of Saturn where the moon Daphnis is making things complex. This image shows a close-up of one crest in the rings. Processing variant.
Image source: photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA23167
Original caption: This enhanced-color image mosaic shows Daphnis, one of the moons embedded in Saturn's rings, in the Keeler gap on the sunlit side of the rings. Daphnis is seen kicking up three waves in the gap's outer edge. Three wave crests of diminishing sizes trail the moon. In each successive crest, the shape of the wave changes as the ring particles within the crest interact and collide with each other. A thin strand of ring material to the lower left of Daphnis is newly visible in this image, and there are intricate features that also hadn't been previously observed in the third wave crest downstream (see Figure 1).
Cassini was at a very shallow angle above the rings (only about 15 degrees) when this image was taken. The resulting foreshortening makes it difficult to tell the difference in this image between features representing vertical structure and those representing radial, or outward from Saturn, structure within the ring plane. Nonetheless, Cassini imaging scientists have determined that the waves in the gap are largely vertical; compare this to the shadows that they were seen to cast during equinox (see PIA11547, PIA11653, PIA11655 and PIA11656). The thin strand of material is also probably vertical. Daphnis itself is actually five times smaller than the width of the gap, but it looks bigger here because of the foreshortening.
The color in this image comes from using Imaging Science Subsystem images obtained by applying different filters to "paint" color onto the black-and-white version of this view previously released as PIA17212. The color of the ring region outward of the Keeler Gap (the "trans-Keeler region," in the lower portion of this image) is noticeably different from the color inward from the gap (upper portion of this image). In visible light, this color difference sharply coincides with the gap, while near-infrared Visible and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS) images show some bleeding of the trans-Keeler region into the region inward from the gap. The reasons for the sharp change in color are mysterious, but they probably have more to do with a change in particle sizes and other properties than with a change in composition.
The images in this mosaic were taken in visible light, using the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera at a distance of approximately 17,000 miles (28,000 kilometers) from Daphnis and at a Sun-Daphnis-spacecraft angle, or phase angle, of 71 degrees (for the color images, 58 degrees). Image scale is 550 feet (170 meters) per pixel.
The image was produced by Tilmann Denk at Freie Universität in Berlin.
Figure 1 shows a closeup of the third wave crest (toward the far left in the color image) focusing on detail scientists hadn't seen before, with multiple strands of ring material visible. The image shows how the ring material behaves after losing the structure Daphnis triggered and goes back to interacting with itself.
The ribbon of material that appears to be protruding into the gap in the right-hand portion of the image is probably actually soaring above the ring plane. Toward the left-hand part of the image, that same ribbon of material dives below the ring plane and becomes obscured by the main part of the rings, which is why it disappears from view.
The image shown in Figure 1 was taken in visible light, using the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera at a distance of approximately 15,000 miles (23,000 kilometers) from Daphnis and at a Sun-Daphnis-spacecraft angle, or phase angle, of 94 degrees. Image scale is 520 feet (160 meters) per pixel. Unlike the main image, the image in Figure 1 was taken on the unlit side of the rings.
The Cassini mission is a cooperative project of NASA, ESA (the European Space Agency) and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of Caltech in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit solarsystem.nasa.gov/cassini. The Cassini imaging team homepage is at ciclops.org.