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Unmanned Spaceflight.com _ Cassini's ongoing mission and raw images _ Enceladus and Rhea, June 13, 2006

Posted by: slinted Jun 19 2006, 11:52 PM

Cassini captured Enceladus passing in front of Rhea back on June 13th in a 9 frame sequence. Enceladus' plume, while subtle, is readily apparent in all frames.

http://saturn1.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/raw-images-details.cfm?feiImageID=77352

http://www.lyle.org/~markoff/cassini/june13_ence_rhea.mpg

From the JPL Solar System Simulator:

Enceladus: 9 frames 400% scale, aligned and stacked

Posted by: ljk4-1 Jun 20 2006, 06:27 PM

The near light pillar behind the two moons give the image such an ethereal effect.

Thanks for sharing.

Has anyone checked the Voyager images of Enceladus to see if any of them by
chance detected the geysers?

Did Pioneer 11 image Enceladus at all? Just for the record, Pioneer 11 did record
Titan's light and darker hemispheres, but no one noticed it at the time.

Has anyone tried detecting the geysers from telescopes on or near Earth?

The July, 2006 issue of Astronomy Magazine has some artwork of an
erupting Enceladus geyser by Ron Miller (page 35), which I could not
find online.

I did find this PSI Newsletter from last summer on Enceladus:

http://www.psi.edu/newsletter/summer05/Summer05.pdf

http://www.psi.edu/hartmann/planets.html