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To: cogitator

Thanks for your note.

My God, a picture of that clarity at 920-thousand-miles. That is remarkable!


70 posted on 09/30/2005 12:57:20 PM PDT by RexBeach ("The rest of the world is three drinks behind." -Humphrey Bogart)
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To: RexBeach
My God, a picture of that clarity at 920-thousand-miles. That is remarkable!

Now that you said that, I misunderstood your question. Cassini was 38,000 miles away from Hyperion when the picture was taken. Still pretty good clarity at that distance; maximum feature size in the picture is 362 meters/1200 feet.

76 posted on 09/30/2005 1:00:50 PM PDT by cogitator
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