Rev 49 - Aug 9-Sep 14, 2007 - Iapetus I1, The only close flyby of Iapetus |
Rev 49 - Aug 9-Sep 14, 2007 - Iapetus I1, The only close flyby of Iapetus |
Sep 7 2007, 05:46 PM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
[Moderator's note: This thread contains images from the Iapetus 2007-09-10 flyby and discussion of them. It was created by splitting this thread which contains pre-flyby discussion]
Another CL-UV3-GRN-IR1 set was posted today, though Iapetus seems to have been hiding from the green and IR filters...here's my best effort at making something from the CL and UV3 images. Lots of topography on the limb! --Emily -------------------- My website - My Patreon - @elakdawalla on Twitter - Please support unmannedspaceflight.com by donating here.
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Sep 11 2007, 10:37 PM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
Sounds like the encounter has been a disaster then. Far from it. All the highest-res observations were successful and are going to be downlinked. The sequence was halted about 6 hours after closest approach, so the outbound full disk stuff got scrapped, which is a bummer, but there is more than enough amazing data to keep everyone busy for a long time. It's just not going to be quite as much as they had planned for. We're lucky we even know how much data acquisition was planned. --Emily -------------------- My website - My Patreon - @elakdawalla on Twitter - Please support unmannedspaceflight.com by donating here.
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Sep 11 2007, 10:57 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 122 Joined: 26-June 04 From: Austria Member No.: 89 |
Far from it. All the highest-res observations were successful and are going to be downlinked. The sequence was halted about 6 hours after closest approach, so the outbound full disk stuff got scrapped, which is a bummer, but there is more than enough amazing data to keep everyone busy for a long time. It's just not going to be quite as much as they had planned for. We're lucky we even know how much data acquisition was planned. --Emily 6 hours after C/A - that means that this sequence (and also the following six ! ) are lost: link Robert |
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