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Unmanned Spaceflight.com _ Cassini general discussion and science results _ Hyperion

Posted by: Sol Dec 18 2004, 05:53 PM

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/gs2.cgi?path=../multimedia/images/small-moons/images/PIA06527.jpg&type=image

*Hello. Am new to this forum. Have been following this mission. Hyperion is one of my favorites. In this particular photo it reminds me of a one-eyed vampire with a pronounced widow's peak.

Of course I'm sure most folks here know that all the latest press image releases http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/latest/index.cfm

--Cindy

Whoops! Hyperlinking doesn't work?? Here are the images in the order in which I tried to post them:

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/gs2.cgi?path=../multimedia/images/small-moons/images/PIA06527.jpg&type=image

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/latest/index.cfm

Posted by: Sunspot Dec 18 2004, 06:07 PM

The Planetary Society has a great section on Saturn and Cassini:

http://www.planetary.org/saturn/index.html

http://www.planetary.org/saturn/cassini_tour.html

http://www.planetary.org/saturn/hyperion.html

Cassini's close flyby of Hyperion comes on September 26, 2005 - flyby altitude about 990km

Posted by: Decepticon Dec 18 2004, 07:24 PM

Sol you might to look at these pics and Maps from the Voyager data. You can compare the Yoyager data with Cassini data as we will soon get it in the upcoming year.

http://www.ssc.uwo.ca/geography/spacemap/hyperion.htm

Note the other moons also diplayed on this web page.