Latest Cassini Images Of Enceladus On View
Raw, unprocessed images from the successful Oct. 19 flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus by NASA's Cassini spacecraft provide new views of the moon and the icy jets that burst from its southern polar region.
Enceladus Flyby E-15 (Raw Image #1)
Image Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
The Cassini spacecraft takes a close view of some of the southern terrain of Saturn's moon Enceladus, where newly created terrain is on display.
See New to Old on Enceladus for a mosaic of this geologically active moon's leading hemisphere that shows the more recently created terrain of the south polar region meeting older, crater-filled terrain farther north. The area shown here is between the leading hemisphere and Saturn-facing side of Enceladus (313 miles, or 504 kilometers across). This view is centered on terrain at 35 degrees south latitude, 45 degrees west longitude. North is up.
The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Sept. 13, 2011. The view was acquired at a distance of approximately 26,000 miles (42,000 kilometers) from Enceladus and at a Sun-Enceladus-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 52 degrees. Image scale is 830 feet (253 meters) per pixel.
This raw, unprocessed image of Saturn's moon Enceladus were taken on Oct. 19, 2011.
As the spacecraft passed Enceladus, its infrared instruments, cameras and other instruments monitored activity on the moon, in particular the famed jets erupting from the moon's south pole. The orbiter flew within about 765 miles (1,230 kilometers) of Enceladus' surface. Enceladus Flyby E-15 (Raw Image #9)
Image Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
See New to Old on Enceladus for a mosaic of this geologically active moon's leading hemisphere that shows the more recently created terrain of the south polar region meeting older, crater-filled terrain farther north. The area shown here is between the leading hemisphere and Saturn-facing side of Enceladus (313 miles, or 504 kilometers across). This view is centered on terrain at 35 degrees south latitude, 45 degrees west longitude. North is up.
The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Sept. 13, 2011. The view was acquired at a distance of approximately 26,000 miles (42,000 kilometers) from Enceladus and at a Sun-Enceladus-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 52 degrees. Image scale is 830 feet (253 meters) per pixel.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
This raw, unprocessed image of Saturn's moon Enceladus and its jets was taken on October 19, 2011 and received on Earth October 19, 2011. The camera was pointing toward Enceladus at approximately 192,905 kilometers away, and the image was taken using the CL1 and CL2 filters. This image has not been validated or calibrated. This flyby gave Cassini its first opportunity to observe Enceladus' plumes with two stars shining behind them, a dual stellar occultation.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
As the spacecraft passed Enceladus, its infrared instruments, cameras and other instruments monitored activity on the moon, in particular the famed jets erupting from the moon's south pole. The orbiter flew within about 765 miles (1,230 kilometers) of Enceladus' surface. Enceladus Flyby E-15 (Raw Image #9)
Cassini flew within about 765 miles (1,230 kilometers) of Enceladus' surface at 2:22 a.m. PDT (09:22 UTC) on Oct. 19.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
Enceladus Flyby E-15 (Raw Image #6)
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL.
.Contacts and sources:
Rosemary Sullivant
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit http://www.nasa.gov/cassini and http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/
To see the raw images, go to http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/photos/raw/ and click on "Search Images."
.Contacts and sources:
Rosemary Sullivant
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit http://www.nasa.gov/cassini and http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/
To see the raw images, go to http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/photos/raw/ and click on "Search Images."
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