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So, it'll take a couple of days longer than expected to get all the Iapetus flyby data down, because the spacecraft was sent into safe mode by a cosmic-ray hit. These things happen. The event happened after the flyby was essentially over. It sounds as if they had to drop a few late, relatively-long-distance observations on the outbound leg, but the rest of the data should be intact.

The raw image archive already has a few more shots of the equatorial ridge in the dark region. Here's a wide-angle view and a closeup of craters right on top of the ridge.

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