caesura: Janus and Saturn’s rings, photographed by Cassini, 1st September 2011.
Image credit: NASA/JPL/SSI.
jewel: Janus, Titan, and Saturn’s rings, photographed by Cassini, 21st March 2006.
Image credit: NASA/JPL/SSI. Animation: AgeOfDestruction.
displacement: Janus passing Epimetheus, photographed by Cassini, 1st February 2010.
Each successive frame is superimposed, displaced to the right. Epimetheus is held in centre frame (forming a horizontal line) as Janus moves behind it (diagonal line).
The arcs (left, right, and faintly above) are more of a mystery. I wondered if they might be background stars, apparently moving due to the motion of Cassini with respect to Epimetheus. But, on consideration, I think distant stars would exhibit far less apparent motion than that.
Image credit: NASA/JPL/SSI. Animation: AgeOfDestruction.
sunlight: Janus, photographed by Cassini, 27th August 2009.
Janus moves through a plane of sunlight shining through a gap in Saturn’s rings.
Image credit: NASA/ESA/SSI. Animation: AgeOfDestruction.
XV: Saturn system, photographed by Cassini, 24th November 2009.
Foreground: Saturn’s rings.
Midground: Janus.
Background: Rhea?
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transference: Janus and Dione, photographed by Cassini 17th January 2008.
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life in miniature: Janus (centre) and Mimas (top left), photographed by Cassini, 22nd October 2011.
See also: Reminiscent? Identification of Mimas made by distinguishing marks.
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X: Janus, 10th moon of Saturn, photographed by Cassini, 27th March 2012.
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Hanging: Janus against Saturn, photographed by Cassini space probe, 25th September 2006.
Janus is a small (200km) inner moon that apparently shares an orbit with Epimetheus somehow. Once I figure it out, and find a funky image related to it, you know where to find it.
Image credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute.
