Enceladus August 11, 2008 encounter, Close-up observations of plume vents |
Enceladus August 11, 2008 encounter, Close-up observations of plume vents |
Aug 3 2008, 06:54 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 913 Joined: 4-September 06 From: Boston Member No.: 1102 |
Just 8 days until the next Enceladus encounter.
CICLOPS Rev 80 Looking Ahead will appear here soon. Cassini Enceladus 080EN Mission Description is here now. We get to fly through the south polar jets again. -Floyd [edit] Soon = somtime before encounter -------------------- |
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Aug 3 2008, 07:28 PM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 4763 Joined: 15-March 05 From: Glendale, AZ Member No.: 197 |
Yikes they are really going to be diving trough those ice plumes. Makes me wonder if a post encounter view of Saturn might look something like this:
-------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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Aug 3 2008, 11:20 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1465 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Columbus OH USA Member No.: 13 |
Yikes they are really going to be diving trough those ice plumes. I just made an animation of the encounter (60MB MPG file, right-click on image below to download): It's from the point of view if the ISS narrow-angle camera, using pointing & position info from the SPICE kernels--pretty frenetic panning around at times! For a lot of the approach the camera looks to be pointing out into space--maybe towards where the plumes are located? -------------------- |
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