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- Enceladus Fly-by by Tom's Astronomy Blog on Nov 24, 2009
Here’s a new image from the November 21st Enceladus flyby by the Cassini spacecraft. The unprocessed image shows the southern polar region and the jets of water vapor and other particles coming from the fissures on the surface. There is anothe...
- The Night Side by Tom's Astronomy Blog on Nov 10, 2009
Kind of an interesting photo from the Cassini spacecraft. The spacecraft was looking towards the night side of Saturn. The moon Dione shows up nicely near the top of the image. What isn’t immediately evident is the little moon Pandora. ...
- Cassini Flyby of Enceladus by Tom's Astronomy Blog on Nov 6, 2009
Image: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute – Cassini Cassini has weathered its Nov 2, 2009 flyby of the Saturn’s moon, Enceladus, in good shape. The flyby placed the spacecraft at about 100 km (60 miles) above the surface of Enceladu...
- Rings Around My What? by Burning Toast on Oct 27, 2009
Nils sends a fantastic link of recent Cassini space probe images of Saturn, her rings and moons.Truly es-spectacular and beautiful!Enjoy!
- Iapetus by Tom's Astronomy Blog on Oct 23, 2009
This Cassini image of Iapetus, a moon of Saturn, shows how beat up it is. Iapetus is a small moon, at 912 miles (1468 km) in diameter, now just look at those large impact craters; the larger craters are almost a third the diameter of the planet a...
- The Critters Of Enceladus by What’s All This, Then? on Oct 18, 2009
What the heck is that? I just knew you'd ask. This JPL image is a crop I chopped from the "full-res" image number N00121336 taken by the Cassini mission to Saturn, the top right catches a bit of the moon Enceladus. The thing at center left is, as you...
- Ripples and Stuff by Tom's Astronomy Blog on Oct 5, 2009
First the Ripples: I was quite taken with the Cassini image above showing the Saturn moons Pandora on the left of the “F” ring, and Prometheus on the right. The moons are shepherds of the “F” ring and while they are tiny, Pandora is 50 mile...
