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Unmanned Spaceflight.com > Outer Solar System > Saturn > Cassini Huygens > Cassini's ongoing mission and raw imagesIcy satellite encounters Revs 51 and 52, October - November 2007 |
 Oct 3 2007, 05:10 PM
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There are some great mid-range and far-out icy moon and rock encounters in the offing over the next month and a half...
Cassini has a break from skimming Titan's cloud-tops and comes within some fairly useful ranges of various other moons. I don't know how many of the following will be targeted for imagery (Ciclops looking ahead page hints at several), but I'm guessing Hyperion and Enceladus, and hoping for Prometheus and Pan. The distances I have are from various averaged sources and may be up to 10% out to allow for trajectory changes: 21st Oct - Hyperion 117,000km 24th Oct - Helene 36,000km 24th Oct - Prometheus 105,000km 24th Oct - Janus 150,000km 16th Nov - Rhea 80,000km (everyone's favourite!) 17th Nov - Pan 96,000km 17th Nov - Calypso 94,000km 17th Nov - Enceladus 120,000km 17th Nov - Pandora 88,000km 17th Nov - Epimetheus 95,000km Echoing sentiments elsewhere on the forum, many congratulations to the Cassini team thus far. |
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Nov 8 2007, 08:39 AM
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The 'looking ahead' section on the ciclops page has been updated for the next revolution - imaging of Enceladus to scrutinise the polar plumes, Rhea from quite a distance, and some shots too of Anthe (I don't imagine these will be more than half a dozen or so pixels across at the most) Also, Saturn eclipses the sun in one of the sequences
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Nov 18 2007, 09:07 PM
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When are the new images scheduled to appear? Not being unpatient here, just feeling slightly uneasy due to the fact no new images were posted since Nov 11.
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Nov 20 2007, 11:04 AM
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QUOTE (ugordan @ Nov 18 2007, 09:07 PM)  When are the new images scheduled to appear? Not being unpatient here, just feeling slightly uneasy due to the fact no new images were posted since Nov 11. I've been wondering about this myself Ugordan. There's nothing in the recent 'significant events' pages to explain. It's easy to become accustomed to the excellent and timely posting of the raws that one starts to take the service for granted. When the raws page first appeared, it had some teething problems and delays as you'd expect (just after orbit insertion) Since then it's been exemplary. I must admit I live with a slight and constant fear of something catastrophic happening to Cassini out there to cut short the rest of the mission, and things like this are a worry. However I'm sure we'd have heard by now if Cassini had been incorporated into a hitherto unknown moon  .I believe it's the scariest day of the year for American turkeys on Thursday, so we may not know for a few more days yet.... |
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jasedm Icy satellite encounters Revs 51 and 52 Oct 3 2007, 05:10 PM
scalbers Here's a try at a Celestia movie for Enceladus... Oct 7 2007, 07:37 PM alan Why does Enceladus go dark half way through? Is it... Oct 7 2007, 09:03 PM scalbers Yes alan, there is an eclipse going on during 11/1... Oct 7 2007, 09:11 PM Holder of the Two Leashes A new sequence of Hyperion images are starting to ... Oct 22 2007, 04:19 PM jasedm Much anticipation on my part for this Hyperion min... Oct 23 2007, 06:52 PM volcanopele There will be no observations of Prometheus near C... Oct 23 2007, 07:22 PM jasedm Yes, it's a shame VP but I live in hope for a ... Oct 23 2007, 07:48 PM OWW In case no one noticed... the Hyperion images are ... Oct 25 2007, 02:24 PM CAP-Team I tried to create a "color" image from t... Oct 25 2007, 03:17 PM ugordan Assorted moon shots, stretched color:
Mimas, E... Oct 26 2007, 10:18 PM jasedm It's amazing how quickly one takes for granted... Oct 31 2007, 04:37 PM
tedstryk They really do seem like different worlds. This i... Oct 31 2007, 07:47 PM ugordan QUOTE (jasedm @ Nov 20 2007, 12:04 PM) I ... Nov 20 2007, 05:37 PM volcanopele Actually, I would think that Thanksgiving is one o... Nov 20 2007, 05:42 PM OWW QUOTE (volcanopele @ Nov 20 2007, 06:42 P... Nov 20 2007, 06:30 PM ugordan http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/imag...iImag... Nov 20 2007, 06:37 PM helvick Wow - that's gotta be very high on the list fo... Nov 20 2007, 06:54 PM volcanopele LOL yeah that's my desktop image of the day Nov 20 2007, 06:54 PM jasedm Oh it's all happening now - nothing for a coup... Nov 20 2007, 07:18 PM volcanopele LOL, it's not that we wanted to keep that quie... Nov 20 2007, 07:31 PM ugordan Flying by Rhea: http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/... Nov 20 2007, 07:39 PM tedstryk QUOTE (ugordan @ Nov 20 2007, 07:39 PM) F... Nov 20 2007, 08:34 PM ugordan Wow, that really does looks similar. Sweet stuff, ... Nov 20 2007, 09:00 PM jasedm QUOTE As far as Anthe goes, I *think* this is one ... Nov 20 2007, 09:32 PM |
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