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Cassini Attempts 12th Titan Flyby
Pasadena, Calif. (SPX) Feb 26, 2006 NASA's Cassini spacecraft returns to Titan on Monday for its twelfth flyby since beginning to survey Saturn and its moons on July 4, 2004. Cassini will reach its closest point of approach at about 2:48 a.m. Pacific Time, when it will fly past Saturn's largest moon at an altitude of 1,813 kilometers (1,126 miles) above the surface at a speed of 6.0 kilometers per second (13,200 miles per hour). The navigation team at Jet Propulsion Laboratory said it expects to deliver the spacecraft within 30 kilometers (19.2 miles) of its target altitude at a confidence of 99 percent. Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Related Links Cassini at JPL Cassini Image Team Explore The Ring World of Saturn and her moons Jupiter and its Moons The million outer planets of a star called Sol News Flash at Mercury
Fresh Features On Enceladus
Pasadena CA (SPX) Feb 23, 2006This new image of Saturn's moon Enceladus in false color reveals subtle details not visible in natural color views. The now-familiar bluish appearance (in false color views) of the southern features called tiger stripes, and other relatively youthful fractures, almost certainly is attributable to larger grain sizes of relatively pure ice, compared to most surface materials. |
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