Rev 015 Sept 23-26, 2005, Calypso-Tethys-Hyperion Options

[Guest_BruceMoomaw_*]

The Hyperion gravity data wasn't obtained through recorded data that could be played back -- it was obtained through extremely precise two-way Doppler tracking, and thus cannot be retrieved. Fortunately, they did manage to get the earlier gravity tracking session at 8 to 6 hours before closest approach, although the second, more precise session at about 2 to 3 hours after CA has been lost -- so they'll still get data in Hyperion's mass, but just not as precise as had been hoped. (Something similar happened during Galileo's flyby of Amalthea -- with the result that they got good data on Amalthea's density, but lost their hoped-for data on its internal distribution of mass.)

[Decepticon]

Oct 1 article.

http://spaceflightnow.com/cassini/051001tethys.html

[Ian R]

I took dilo's great animation of the Hyperion approach and modified it slightly, so that it plays constantly on a loop - backwards and forwards. This allows the viewer to get a better appreciation of the moon's complex topography.

Well, it works for me anyway!

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http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/vide....cfm?videoID=98

[scalbers]

Quite the dancing Hyperion a couple of posts up. I've updated my Tethys map now to include the excellent CICLOPS mosaic that Volcanopele had worked on. The current version is at http://laps.fsl.noaa.gov/albers/sos/sos.html#TETHYS.

[Decepticon]

Great work!


I always save every update you make and compare the differences with mapping done on the moons.

I love seeing this puzzle started by Voyager and Completed by Cassini.