Enceladus SAR, Iapetus and Rhea SAR too Options

[Tunglere]

There's a news item on the Cassini website about the Nov. 6, 2011 flyby of Enceladus with synthetic aperture radar imaging, with a link to a video that shows the radar swath (overlaid on a non-radar image) and close-ups of two segments of the swath, as well as a link to one of the close-up segments.

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/news/newsreleas...elease20111201/

[stevesliva]

Thanks for pointing out the video! I totally missed it when I skimmed the article earlier.

Direct link: http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/video/videodetails/?videoID=239

[ugordan]

Emily's blog says:

Although Cassini has used its RADAR instrument to perform other sorts of observations on Saturn's smaller moons (things like scatterometry and radiometry), until last month it had never performed SAR imaging on any body except Titan.

I sort of remember there was some (distant) SAR on Iapetus (or was it Rhea?) done previously. Am I imagining things?

[Paolo]

I sort of remember there was some (distant) SAR on Iapetus (or was it Rhea?) done previously. Am I imagining things?

Absolutely. It was Iapetus in September 2006. Cassini made a short low-res swath of the leading hemisphere.