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Topic: MimasWritten by Preston Dyches
Cassini’s wide-angle camera acquired 42 red, green and blue images, covering the planet and its main rings from one end to the other, on September 13th, 2017. Imaging scientists stitched these frames together to make a natural color view. The scene also includes the moons Prometheus, Pandora, Janus, Epimetheus, Mimas and Enceladus. ![]() After more than 13 years at Saturn, and with its fate sealed, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft bid farewell to the Saturnian system by firing the shutters of its wide-angle camera and capturing this last, full mosaic of Saturn and its rings two days before the spacecraft’s dramatic plunge into the planet’s atmosphere. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute) «Read the rest of this article» Sections: Technology | No Comments
NASA’s Cassini mission images suggests Saturn’s moon Mimas has a frozen core or a liquid oceanWritten by Preston Dyches
Researchers used numerous images of Mimas taken by NASA’s Cassini mission to determine how much the moon wobbles as it orbits Saturn. They then evaluated several possible models for how its interior might be arranged, finding two possibilities that fit their data.The study is published in the October 17th issue of the journal Science. ![]() This mosaic of Saturn’s moon Mimas was created from images taken by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft during its closest flyby of the moon on Feb. 13, 2010. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute) «Read the rest of this article» Sections: Technology | No Comments
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft and Hubble Space Telescope capture unique view of Saturn’s AurorasWritten by Jia-Rui Cook
While NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, orbiting around Earth, was able to observe the northern auroras in ultraviolet wavelengths, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, orbiting around Saturn, got complementary close-up views in infrared, visible-light and ultraviolet wavelengths. Cassini could also see northern and southern parts of Saturn that don’t face Earth. «Read the rest of this article» Sections: Technology | No Comments
NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft Spots Saturn’s tiny moon MethoneWritten by Jia-Rui C. Cook
The flyby of Methone took place on May 20th at a distance of about 1,200 miles (1,900 kilometers). It was Cassini’s closest flyby of the 2-mile-wide (3-kilometer-wide) moon. ![]() This raw, unprocessed image was taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on May 20th, 2012. The camera was pointing toward Methone. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI) «Read the rest of this article» Sections: Technology | No Comments
Cassini Presents Saturn Moon QuintetWritten by Rosemary Sullivant
From left to right are Janus, Pandora, Enceladus, Mimas and finally Rhea, bisected by the right side of the frame. The view was acquired at a distance of approximately 684,000 miles (1.1 million kilometers) from Rhea and 1.1 million miles (1.8 million kilometers) from Enceladus. ![]() NASA's Cassini spacecraft captures five of Saturn's moons in one image: Janus, Pandora, Enceladus, Mimas and Rhea. This view looks toward the northern, sunlit side of the rings from just above the ringplane. Rhea is closest to Cassini here. The rings are beyond Rhea and Mimas. Enceladus is beyond the rings. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute) «Read the rest of this article» Sections: News | No Comments
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