Flyby data delayed
Sep. 11th, 2007 09:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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.
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.