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Mar. 13th, 2008 08:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mmcirvinThere are pictures back from Enceladus, but the JPL site's being hammered so hard I can't see most of them.
Later: The JPL Enceladus blog and Emily Lakdawalla have some. They're pretty, but I was mistaken earlier--while this was a very close flyby, it wasn't devoted to super-close-up pictures from the main camera; the closest approach was in Saturn's shadow and devoted to thermal infrared observations and direct sampling of Enceladus's plumes. So there are actually closer images from previous encounters with Enceladus. Still, it's nice to see Cassini get some good pictures of northern territory previously imaged only by the Voyagers. And that picture taken in Saturn/ring/moonlight with stars all around is a beauty.
Later: The JPL Enceladus blog and Emily Lakdawalla have some. They're pretty, but I was mistaken earlier--while this was a very close flyby, it wasn't devoted to super-close-up pictures from the main camera; the closest approach was in Saturn's shadow and devoted to thermal infrared observations and direct sampling of Enceladus's plumes. So there are actually closer images from previous encounters with Enceladus. Still, it's nice to see Cassini get some good pictures of northern territory previously imaged only by the Voyagers. And that picture taken in Saturn/ring/moonlight with stars all around is a beauty.