Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Fabulous! Enceladus Raw Flyby Images

Jets from Enceladus. Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
Carolyn Porco, the lead for Cassini's imaging team, warned on Twitter that the flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus performed by the spacecraft on Nov. 2 wasn't really an "imaging" flyby, and that we might have to wait until the Nov. 21 flyby for really good images. But just take a look the images returned so far, with stunning looks at the jets shooting from the moon! Another image takes a close look at the surface. These are raw, unprocessed images, but what images they are! This is the second image from today's flyby returned by the spacecraft. See below for more.
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