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Enceladus SAR, Iapetus and Rhea SAR too
Tunglere
post Dec 2 2011, 02:44 AM
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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/
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post Dec 2 2011, 04:45 PM
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Wow, that's quite something - 650 metres deep on a 500km diameter moon - equivalent if applied to Earth as a canyon over 16km deep...
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- Tunglere   Enceladus SAR   Dec 2 2011, 02:44 AM
- - stevesliva   Thanks for pointing out the video! I totally ...   Dec 2 2011, 02:56 AM
|- - ugordan   Emily's blog says: QUOTE Although Cassini has...   Dec 2 2011, 09:49 AM
|- - Paolo   QUOTE (ugordan @ Dec 2 2011, 10:49 AM) I ...   Dec 2 2011, 12:24 PM
- - machi   Even NASA page is wrong ("NASA's Cassini ...   Dec 2 2011, 02:44 PM
- - Phil Stooke   Are there any images made from those observations?...   Dec 2 2011, 04:02 PM
|- - ugordan   I think I saw an image somewhere of Iapetus, but f...   Dec 2 2011, 04:17 PM
|- - machi   QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Dec 2 2011, 05:02 PM...   Dec 2 2011, 04:31 PM
- - jasedm   Wow, that's quite something - 650 metres deep ...   Dec 2 2011, 04:45 PM
- - volcanopele   Blink between Iapetus SAR and Steve Albers' ma...   Dec 2 2011, 05:16 PM
- - Phil Stooke   Now I remember! Too many things to remember t...   Dec 2 2011, 05:28 PM

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