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Old 05-July-2005, 03:11 PM
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Icy Scars on Tethys.
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Tethys Mysteries.
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Moon not quite round

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Saturn's moon Mimas, whose low density suggests that it is primarily composed of ice, has a flattened or oblate shape reminiscent of Saturn's. The moon's equatorial dimension is nearly 10 percent larger than the polar one due to the satellite's rapid rotation. Mimas is 397 kilometers (247 miles) across.
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Old 11-July-2005, 04:29 PM
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Rhea's Diversity of Impacts.
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Encountering Hyperion (Movie).
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Pop-Up Moon (Hyperion).
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Full press release accompanying the above images:

Spongy-Looking Hyperion Tumbles Into View
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Solar Eclipses…Daily (Prometheus).
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Clues in the Bright and Dark


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Southeast of Xanadu (and above the center in this view) is a peculiar semi-circular feature informally referred to by imaging scientists as "the Smile." This surface feature is the brightest spot on Titan's surface, not only to the imaging science subsystem cameras, but also to the visual and infrared mapping spectrometer instrument, which sees the surface at even longer wavelengths (see PIA07876). The Smile is 560 kilometers (345 miles) wide.
Attention Face-on-Mars woo-woos: NASA admits there is a Smile on Titan!
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I've just had a look at the Cassini home page. The counter for the Enceladus flyby has completed but theres been no site update. Nor have any new pictures been added to the Raw Images.

Has anyone heard what might have happened?
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I am curious as well.

Cassini was to approach within 109 MILES of Enceladus. Hopefully the site will be updated shortly.

Arizona State had some early raw images of Huygens...maybe they have some of Enceladus...who knows.

Hope all is well w/ the probe.
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Old 15-July-2005, 04:15 PM
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Cassini was to approach within 109 MILES of Enceladus. Hopefully the site will be updated shortly.

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Hope all is well w/ the probe.
I sincerly hope NASA has not done what you are implying. Then again, if they had lost contact then it should have hit the media before now.
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Who'd've thought a little satellite like that would have a 110-mile-high mountain? :wink:
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Perhaps it was shot down by the Enceladian Space Defense Command.
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Some of the non-targeted Rhea encounter images are showing up on the raw images page, although the bug in the page still haven't been fixed (most images are missing). Enceladus images should be available later.

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Old 15-July-2005, 05:43 PM
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Thanks Kullat Nuna.

I am eagerly awaiting their release. Can you just imagine the detail that will be resolved? at 107 miles?
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Old 16-July-2005, 01:22 AM
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Raw Enceladus images appear to be coming in now:

http://ciclops.org/view_event.php?id=22
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Old 16-July-2005, 02:33 AM
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Raw Enceladus images appear to be coming in now:

http://ciclops.org/view_event.php?id=22
Glad to hear that the problem was entirely earthbound.

The raw images coming though are looking good. Check out the detail on this image showing an interesection of crevasses.

The Cassini website has also been updated
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Old 18-July-2005, 08:29 AM
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After the Enceladus flyby, Cassini took four images of the small moon Epimetheus. In an attempt to increase the resolution, I stacked the four pictures together at 500% to give the following satisfactory result:

http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/i...showtopic=1152
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