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| Cassini's 7th Enceladus Flyby Images | 11.03.2009 20:30 |
| The NASA Saturn orbiting spacecraft Cassini flew by Saturn's arguably most interesting moon Enceladus for the 7th time on November 2, 2009. It targeted its flyby at a mere 99km (62 mi) at its closest approach, straight through the watery plumes. The raw images are available on the Cassini website, and the unique vantage point of the orbiter's cameras is simply stunning. You can search through the photos yourself by choosing "ENCELADUS" as the Target and choosing "Newest" for the Observation Time. Here are a couple of examples of images of the moon's plumes: | |
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Incredible! The white specks are noise in the camera image which are usually filtered out in processed images. These are raw images, so of course no ground processing done yet to them. These were taken from hundreds of thousands of kilometers away. More images nearer to the closest approach are here: | |
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This was taken from about 10,000km away. I love how Saturn's rings show up in the background. | |
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| This was taken a few thousand km further away, but zoomed in on the surface. Intricate detail! Finally, a movie clip of the E7 flyby is located here: http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/files/E7_Flyby-2.mov. | |
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