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[jasedm]

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!!

[Big_Gazza]

The Enceladus opportunity looks really nice, a nice high phase view over the trailing hemisphere. In terms of mapping, this won't really cover anything we haven't seen before, though the few extra degrees of latitude the sub-solar point has increased by since last March may help.

Unfortunately, we will miss Methone. Not all that surprising considering the dinky size of Methone and the tight scheduling around periapse for Cassini.

Jason,

Will this encounter be favourable to dark-side imaging courtesy of Saturn-shine? If so, it seems that a good chunk of poorly-imaged terrain would be imaged. The Dione encounter last rev was a good one for Saturn-shine, although no new coverage was obtained.

Generally speaking, do any of the remainder of the primary mission Enceladus encounters provide good coverage of the poorly-imaged region 120 deg to 30 deg longitude? For some reason, this area makes me think of the planet Hoth from The Empire Strikes back...

Cheers,
Gary