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: 934 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 8 2008, 11:28 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 655 Joined: 22-January 06 Member No.: 655 |
Wonderful. This has to be the best flyby yet in terms of availability to the public of instrument plans, sequences and computer simulations of the encounter.
It's very obvious the amount of work and close-scrutiny that has gone into the spacecraft attitude, trajectory, and pointing so that every conceivable opportunity for measurements with all of the instruments can be achieved. It looks like Cassini will be operating at the absolute limits of its capabilities with regard to screwing as much science as possible out of the flyby - I'm particularly interested to see what comes out of what's being referred to as the 'skeet-shoot' images - it seems very experimental seat-of-the-pants stuff. I'd be surprised if any spacecraft to date has executed a more complicated list of commands during such a short near-encounter timescale. Can't wait. |
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