Enceladus-3 (March 12, 2008) Options

[Guest_AlexBlackwell_*]

Excerpt from Cassini Significant Events for 02/16/06 - 02/22/06:

"As mentioned in previous weeks, the project has been working on adopting a new reference trajectory in order to raise the minimum Titan flyby altitude for various encounters. Today the project reached a decision to proceed with the 'optocc2' trajectory. Additional work is still to be performed before delivery of the final files. This will include minor tweaks that have been analyzed in other trajectories, adjusting orbit 68 timing, and capture of an Enceladus plume occultation on orbit 28."

For the record, the new reference trajectory will result in an even more spectacular Enceladus-3 flyby [61EN (t) E3] on March 12, 2008.

[Guest_BruceMoomaw_*]

I found Jason's blog entry from almost a year ago ( http://volcanopele.blogspot.com/2005/03/en...resolution.html ) quoting Zibi Turtle as saying that "we will probably not get better images than 25 m/pixel, despite coming within 100 km of Enceladus in March 2008 (which would yield sub-meter resolution images if ISS took images at C/A)." A pity, but we can't have everything.