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Mimas Flyby, August 2, 2005
volcanopele
post Jul 27 2005, 09:32 PM
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Now out of solar conjunction, we can now look forward to the next Cassini of Mimas next Tuesday. During this flyby, Cassini comes within 62,000 km of the surface on Mimas at 9:49 PM PDT August 1. This will be the best Mimas opportunity of the tour. Views from the Solar System Simulator are suspect since they have not incorpated the "Tethys tweak" change to the tour, which raised the Mimas flyby altitude from 49,000 km to 62,000 km. However, they show that at C/A, Mimas should be in moderate phase observations over Mimas' trailing hemisphere. A few hours before C/A, 1.2 km/pixel scale imaging should be possible showing Herschel near terminator.

Should make for a very exciting flyby.


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Don't go too crazy searching for new images, they won't show up till around 7pm PDT tonight.

The fractures systems on Mimas seem to be largely explained by impact-generated stresses, particularly stresses generated by Herschel, though this encounter will give us a much better idea as we get much higher resolution images, allowing us to see details in some of the fractures as well as map smaller fracture systems, if they exist.


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- volcanopele   Mimas Flyby   Jul 27 2005, 09:32 PM
- - Sunspot   Ahhhhhhhh........thats why there haven't been ...   Jul 27 2005, 09:58 PM
|- - Bjorn Jonsson   I did an animation showing the upcoming Mimas flyb...   Jul 29 2005, 02:20 AM
||- - volcanopele   QUOTE (Bjorn Jonsson @ Jul 28 2005, 07:20 PM)...   Aug 1 2005, 07:01 PM
||- - Bjorn Jonsson   QUOTE (volcanopele @ Aug 1 2005, 07:01 PM)Bjo...   Aug 1 2005, 07:45 PM
|- - Bjorn Jonsson   QUOTE (Sunspot @ Jul 27 2005, 09:58 PM)Ahhhhh...   Jul 30 2005, 09:35 PM
- - Decepticon   I hope we get some night side imaging. Than again ...   Jul 30 2005, 04:05 PM
- - djellison   Solar Conjunction Bjorn Doug   Aug 1 2005, 07:47 PM
|- - Bjorn Jonsson   QUOTE (djellison @ Aug 1 2005, 07:47 PM)Solar...   Aug 1 2005, 07:52 PM
|- - volcanopele   QUOTE (Bjorn Jonsson @ Aug 1 2005, 12:52 PM)N...   Aug 1 2005, 08:04 PM
- - Sunspot   Cant believe they haven't fixed the website, i...   Aug 1 2005, 10:31 PM
|- - tedstryk   QUOTE (Sunspot @ Aug 1 2005, 10:31 PM)Cant be...   Aug 1 2005, 10:49 PM
- - Decepticon   http://saturn1.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/ima...heQ=0...   Aug 1 2005, 11:50 PM
|- - tedstryk   Yep, the first distant views are in....can't w...   Aug 2 2005, 12:29 AM
- - gndonald   The Cassini Raw Images page is now showing distant...   Aug 2 2005, 08:24 AM
|- - ljk4-1   QUOTE (gndonald @ Aug 2 2005, 03:24 AM)The Ca...   Aug 2 2005, 02:03 PM
|- - tedstryk   True   Aug 2 2005, 02:40 PM
- - Decepticon   I so nervous! The anticipation is killing me....   Aug 2 2005, 03:37 PM
|- - tedstryk   Should be interesting. There are a lot of feature...   Aug 2 2005, 03:50 PM
- - volcanopele   Don't go too crazy searching for new images, t...   Aug 2 2005, 04:04 PM
|- - ljk4-1   QUOTE (volcanopele @ Aug 2 2005, 11:04 AM)Don...   Aug 2 2005, 04:15 PM
|- - volcanopele   QUOTE (ljk4-1 @ Aug 2 2005, 09:15 AM)Any...   Aug 2 2005, 04:29 PM
- - alan   New images are up http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/mu...   Aug 3 2005, 03:02 AM
|- - tedstryk   Exciting...the imagery of Dione and Rhea is great ...   Aug 3 2005, 03:07 AM
|- - ljk4-1   QUOTE (alan @ Aug 2 2005, 10:02 PM)New images...   Aug 3 2005, 02:59 PM
|- - volcanopele   QUOTE (ljk4-1 @ Aug 3 2005, 07:59 AM)I d...   Aug 3 2005, 03:05 PM
|- - tedstryk   I think a major factor too is that when it comes t...   Aug 3 2005, 03:40 PM
|- - gndonald   QUOTE (volcanopele @ Aug 3 2005, 11:05 PM)the...   Aug 3 2005, 04:32 PM
- - Decepticon   The inner walls of the craters remind me of Phobe...   Aug 3 2005, 03:08 AM
|- - dilo   A little pseudo-color (UV+G+IR) gallery; on the ri...   Aug 3 2005, 04:57 AM
- - malgar   I've extracted a digital elevation model from ...   Aug 3 2005, 10:10 AM
|- - tedstryk   Some great work, dilo and malgar. Dilo, I have a ...   Aug 3 2005, 02:50 PM
|- - dilo   QUOTE (tedstryk @ Aug 3 2005, 02:50 PM)Some g...   Aug 3 2005, 07:38 PM
- - Bill Harris   (Post#32) QUOTE I'd agree on the cryovulcanism...   Aug 3 2005, 08:34 PM
|- - tedstryk   http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/imag...3/N00...   Aug 3 2005, 09:36 PM
||- - dilo   QUOTE (tedstryk @ Aug 3 2005, 09:36 PM)http:/...   Aug 3 2005, 10:18 PM
|- - gndonald   QUOTE (Bill Harris @ Aug 4 2005, 04:34 AM)(Po...   Aug 4 2005, 02:41 AM
|- - tedstryk   [quote=gndonald,Aug 4 2005, 02:41 AM] The closest ...   Aug 4 2005, 03:01 AM
- - alan   new batch is up http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/mult...   Aug 3 2005, 09:36 PM
- - alan   Rings in the background http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov...   Aug 3 2005, 09:42 PM
|- - tedstryk   Beautiful! Thanks for finding that. I have p...   Aug 3 2005, 09:59 PM
||- - Sunspot   QUOTE (tedstryk @ Aug 3 2005, 10:59 PM)Beauti...   Aug 3 2005, 10:42 PM
|- - paxdan   QUOTE (alan @ Aug 3 2005, 10:42 PM)Rings in t...   Aug 4 2005, 08:27 AM
|- - Ian R   Here's a super-res view of Herschel, from a co...   Aug 4 2005, 10:46 AM
|- - Ian R   Another super-res view of Mimas from eariler in th...   Aug 4 2005, 10:52 AM
|- - Ian R   Here's a global super-res view of Mimas.   Aug 4 2005, 11:52 AM
- - scalbers   Mimas is a tri-axial ellipsoid - like Enceladus bu...   Aug 3 2005, 10:55 PM
- - malgar   Another DTM extrapolation with 3D rendering and an...   Aug 3 2005, 11:39 PM
|- - volcanopele   QUOTE (malgar @ Aug 3 2005, 04:39 PM)Another ...   Aug 3 2005, 11:45 PM
||- - malgar   QUOTE (volcanopele @ Aug 4 2005, 01:45 AM)Are...   Aug 3 2005, 11:56 PM
||- - Bjorn Jonsson   I'm attaching two images rendered from a quick...   Aug 4 2005, 01:05 AM
||- - malgar   QUOTE (Bjorn Jonsson @ Aug 4 2005, 03:05 AM)I...   Aug 4 2005, 07:32 AM
||- - Bjorn Jonsson   These superresolution images are great and show lo...   Aug 4 2005, 11:29 PM
|- - volcanopele   QUOTE (malgar @ Aug 3 2005, 04:39 PM)Another ...   Aug 4 2005, 03:41 AM
- - Decepticon   Steve Updated the Mimas Map!! Cool Stuff...   Aug 5 2005, 02:23 AM
- - malgar   I've rendered Herschel crater. Hard work, I ha...   Aug 5 2005, 07:42 PM
- - Bill Harris   Interesting images. The impression I'm starti...   Aug 5 2005, 10:13 PM
|- - volcanopele   QUOTE (Bill Harris @ Aug 5 2005, 03:13 PM)Int...   Aug 5 2005, 11:22 PM
- - Sunspot   Some new images of Mimas at the CICLOPS website, I...   Aug 8 2005, 03:35 PM
- - Decepticon   ^ I noticed that myself. Alot of images on CICLOPS...   Aug 8 2005, 03:38 PM
- - Sunspot   I couldn't find the one of Mimas against the r...   Aug 8 2005, 03:42 PM
- - volcanopele   QUOTE (Sunspot @ Aug 8 2005, 08:42 AM)I could...   Aug 8 2005, 04:35 PM

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