What's New!
...at the PDS Rings Node (2003)

November 19, 2003

Our on-line ephemeris tools now support the New Horizons Jupiter encounter of early 2007. Versions of the Jupiter Viewer and Jupiter Ephemeris Generator are provided.


September 30, 2003

We have completed the Voyager Photopolarimeter (PPS) ring occultation data set, VG_2801. You can browse the files or download the entire volume as a Zip file.


August 28, 2003

We have released some major revisions to our web site.

The final update to our Galileo image pages includes data from the I32 encounter, plus new calibrated images from the G28 and G29 encounters.

We have updated our Voyager pages, including a collection of ISS calibration documents unavailable elsewhere.

We introduce new pages describing Earth-based ring occultation data and astrometry.


August 13, 2003

We have also released a pre-peer review volume of Saturn ring occultation data from the July 1989 occultation of 28 Sgr, EBROCC_0001. Comments are welcome.


July 25, 2003

We have updated our catalog of images from Hubble's Wide Field/Planetary Camera. It contains every image of a ringed planet obtained before mid-July.

We have also released a preliminary version of a Hubble astrometry data set [NB volume is no longer preliminary] , ASTROM_0001, containing measurements of the positions of Saturn's moons.


July 14, 2003

We added an option to mark the pericenter of Saturn's F Ring in our Saturn Viewer and Cassini Tour Visualizer.


May 9, 2003

At users' request, we added a feature for tracking the anti-solar point to our Cassini visualization/planning tools. This is needed for planning backscatter observations of various targets.


January 10, 2003

We have updated our collection of on-line ephemeris tools. We have added Phoebe to all our Saturn tools and provide new output options for our ephemeris table generators.


January 3, 2003

A pre-peer review version of volume [NB volume is no longer pre-peer review] RPX_0101, containing Saturn ring plane crossing data from the William Herschel Telescope, is now on line. Comments are welcome.


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