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Enceladus and Methone, Rev 28
jasedm
post Aug 29 2006, 09:06 PM
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Great orbit coming up.......
Titan on 7th September, followed on the 9th, by Enceladus from ~ 40,000km (not a great phase angle though) Any coverage will overlap that of the best Voyager 2 mosaic (Sarandib Planitia etc) but in much better detail.
Also, Cassini passes less than 12,000km from Methone later on that day (closest approach in the whole mission) - really hope the mission planners managed to retarget some frames to image the little blighter on this orbit.

Can't wait!!
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post Aug 29 2006, 09:50 PM
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Shame about Methone - Cassini barrels past just a couple of Titan-diameters away.
Still, another opportunity comes up next June I believe to capture some pics of her at a similar range.
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- jasedm   Enceladus and Methone   Aug 29 2006, 09:06 PM
- - volcanopele   The Enceladus opportunity looks really nice, a nic...   Aug 29 2006, 09:24 PM
|- - scalbers   QUOTE (volcanopele @ Aug 29 2006, 09:24 P...   Sep 7 2006, 06:26 PM
- - jasedm   Shame about Methone - Cassini barrels past just a ...   Aug 29 2006, 09:50 PM
|- - volcanopele   QUOTE (jasedm @ Aug 29 2006, 02:50 PM) Sh...   Aug 29 2006, 09:52 PM
|- - jasedm   QUOTE (volcanopele @ Aug 29 2006, 09:52 P...   Mar 11 2008, 09:46 AM
|- - ugordan   QUOTE (jasedm @ Mar 11 2008, 10:46 AM) Ma...   Mar 11 2008, 10:45 AM
- - jasedm   Phase angle will be 115 degrees, and the range 12,...   Aug 29 2006, 10:01 PM
|- - volcanopele   QUOTE (jasedm @ Aug 29 2006, 03:01 PM) Ph...   Aug 29 2006, 10:13 PM
- - Big_Gazza   QUOTE (volcanopele @ Aug 30 2006, 07:24 A...   Aug 30 2006, 01:00 PM
|- - angel1801   On September 25, we will see this poorly imaged ar...   Aug 30 2006, 02:12 PM
- - volcanopele   scalbers, the graphic represents the non-targeted ...   Sep 7 2006, 07:52 PM
- - volcanopele   Some interesting new images just came down. Encel...   Sep 10 2006, 07:21 AM
- - Myran   Well thank you fo rthe heads up volcanopele. And y...   Sep 10 2006, 07:51 AM
- - Phil Stooke   On the inner side, the particles ahead of the moon...   Sep 10 2006, 02:17 PM
- - Myran   Thank you for the correction Phil..... Edit: No c...   Sep 10 2006, 09:48 PM
- - volcanopele   Here be the Enceladus images: View over the north...   Sep 11 2006, 03:28 AM
- - Ian R   I'm sure that this view would make a nice comp...   Sep 11 2006, 02:47 PM
- - angel1801   I have observed that the image of Tethys contained...   Sep 11 2006, 03:25 PM

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