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Unmanned Spaceflight.com > Outer Solar System > Saturn > Cassini Huygens > Cassini's ongoing mission and raw imagesApril 30 Icy Moon Imaging |
 Apr 24 2006, 02:58 PM
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Apart from Titan, will Cassini get close to any icy moons when it gets into the inner part of Saturn on or around April 30? I've checked using the Solar System Simulator and I have not seen anything good to date.
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Apr 25 2006, 12:33 PM
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See page 35 (pdf-page 47) on The Voyager Neptune Travel Guide for pointing information.
edstrick, do you have some papers (links) about the Voyager encounter planning and actual performance? It's quite hard to find these things from the pre-internet time. Analyst |
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Apr 25 2006, 01:00 PM
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There's a rather elaborate description of the mission goals here that goes into details on specific things including the optimal flight paths for the two craft for the Jupiter/Saturn encounters. This is pre-flight estimates, though.
Neptune Travel Guide looks like a very interesting read (even if poorly scanned). It says the final scan platform pointing error is +/- 0.1 deg (2 sigma) which is +/- 1/4 of NAC FOV. All the more reason I'm puzzled by the 1 degree error. -------------------- |
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angel1801 April 30 Icy Moon Imaging Apr 24 2006, 02:58 PM
tasp The Voyager trajectories with their multiple moon ... Apr 24 2006, 05:30 PM Analyst Almost all of the Voyager encounters were far enco... Apr 24 2006, 06:57 PM
ugordan From what I see, Cassini will fly pretty far from ... Apr 25 2006, 09:44 AM edstrick Voyager 1's primary small moon target was Rhea... Apr 25 2006, 10:47 AM angel1801 QUOTE (edstrick @ Apr 25 2006, 08:17 PM) ... Apr 25 2006, 11:38 AM ugordan QUOTE (edstrick @ Apr 25 2006, 11:47 AM) ... Apr 25 2006, 11:38 AM ljk4-1 QUOTE (ugordan @ Apr 25 2006, 09:00 AM) N... Apr 25 2006, 02:18 PM ugordan QUOTE (ljk4-1 @ Apr 25 2006, 03:18 P... Apr 25 2006, 02:27 PM angel1801 QUOTE (Analyst @ Apr 25 2006, 10:03 PM) S... Apr 25 2006, 02:09 PM Analyst QUOTE (ugordan @ Apr 25 2006, 01:00 PM) I... Apr 25 2006, 03:02 PM volcanopele The best non-targeted encounter ofthis orbit is th... Apr 26 2006, 08:39 PM angel1801 I'm here to tell you that the first two images... Apr 29 2006, 02:16 PM TritonAntares Hi,
there could be the possibility to have a ... Apr 29 2006, 04:29 PM dilo This image of Epimetheus+rings+Titan is really stu... Apr 29 2006, 06:14 PM dilo QUOTE (TritonAntares @ Apr 29 2006, 04:29... Apr 29 2006, 07:20 PM BruceMoomaw Interesting. Janus -- like the little Lagrange mo... Apr 29 2006, 10:43 PM Phil Stooke It is an illusion, but not caused by low resolutio... Apr 29 2006, 11:38 PM edstrick The article on Voyager 2's Saturn encounter th... Apr 30 2006, 07:45 AM ugordan Janus UV3-GRN-IR1 composite, distance ~220 000 km:... Apr 30 2006, 02:40 PM ugordan Rhea from ~481 000 km, R+B composite with a synthe... Apr 30 2006, 03:05 PM volcanopele QUOTE (ugordan @ Apr 30 2006, 07:40 AM) J... May 1 2006, 07:28 PM alan Which moon is below the rings?
http://saturn1.jpl.... Apr 30 2006, 04:06 PM TritonAntares QUOTE (alan @ Apr 30 2006, 06:06 PM) Whic... Apr 30 2006, 05:22 PM volcanopele QUOTE (TritonAntares @ Apr 30 2006, 10:22... Apr 30 2006, 05:39 PM TritonAntares QUOTE (volcanopele @ Apr 30 2006, 07:39 P... May 1 2006, 05:22 PM volcanopele Nope, Prometheus. prometheus is a bit more hot do... May 1 2006, 05:46 PM TritonAntares QUOTE (volcanopele @ May 1 2006, 07:46 PM... May 1 2006, 06:31 PM SigurRosFan It's Janus (above, 218,000 km distance) and Pr... Jun 5 2006, 01:21 PM jasedm Can anyone confirm whether Cassini is still assign... Sep 23 2006, 07:37 PM ugordan The recent Cassini significant events report state... Sep 23 2006, 08:37 PM jasedm Hi ugordan, the dark crater floors were intimated ... Sep 23 2006, 09:14 PM ugordan Somehow I'm not very convinced those are dark ... Sep 23 2006, 09:41 PM jasedm Yes, it's probably wishful thinking on my part... Sep 23 2006, 10:18 PM nprev Speaking of icy moons, check out this recent shot ... Sep 23 2006, 11:31 PM Rob Pinnegar QUOTE (nprev @ Sep 23 2006, 05:31 PM) REA... Sep 24 2006, 01:47 AM Decepticon Here's another of Iapetus http://saturn.jpl.na... Sep 24 2006, 03:22 AM edstrick I remain convinced that there a black monolith on ... Sep 24 2006, 06:49 AM nprev QUOTE (edstrick @ Sep 23 2006, 11:49 PM) ... Sep 24 2006, 09:16 PM ugordan QUOTE (nprev @ Sep 24 2006, 10:16 PM) Yea... Sep 24 2006, 09:28 PM |
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