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Unmanned Spaceflight.com _ Cassini's ongoing mission and raw images _ Rev 163 - Mar 18-Apr 5, 2012 - Enceladus E17, Dione, Janus

Posted by: Paolo Mar 16 2012, 11:20 AM

the "looking ahead" for Rev 163 is now up http://www.ciclops.org/view/7112/Rev163?js=1
in addition to the Enceladus flybys, there will be interesting observations of the Phoebe ring, that IIRC were lost when Cassini safed in late-2010 (or was it 2009?)

Posted by: volcanopele Mar 16 2012, 01:57 PM

Please don't jinx it.... ohmy.gif

Yes, there was a Phoebe ring observation during Rev140, which was lost due to the safing event in November 2010.

Posted by: jasedm Mar 28 2012, 04:37 PM

Some http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/photos/raw/?start=1 on the latest rev from ~40,000km - oddly not mentioned on the looking-ahead article. Janus/Enceladus/Titan pictures not down yet - nice revolution this one.

Posted by: volcanopele Mar 28 2012, 09:59 PM

Sorry that was my fault. I didn't notice the extra trigger on that observation...

Posted by: brellis Mar 28 2012, 11:24 PM

In this ~gorgeous!~ image of the Enceladus plumes, something is blocking the light on the leftmost "plume". Clouds? Dust? Or is that the sun?


Posted by: gwiz Mar 29 2012, 08:42 AM

QUOTE (brellis @ Mar 29 2012, 12:24 AM) *
In this ~gorgeous!~ image of the Enceladus plumes, something is blocking the light on the leftmost "plume". Clouds? Dust? Or is that the sun?

Guess the lowest part of the plume is in the shadow of Enceladus itself, in other words, that particular plume originates on the dark side of the satellite and only moves into the light at high altitude.

Posted by: Phil Stooke Mar 29 2012, 08:50 PM

Some lovely new pics of Janus, including a transit of Saturn:


http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/photos/raw/rawimagedetails/index.cfm?imageID=256953


Phil

Posted by: kemcab2012 Mar 22 2013, 05:34 PM

Thread resurrection. There were several mentions from microbloggers at LPSC this week about Enceladus' plumes. Because of this, I pulled imagery from the latest PDS releaseshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxckDUdaIV4 from Revs 159, 161, and 163.

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