Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Cassini ISS images - April 26-30, 2010


The following new images taken by the Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS) on the Cassini spacecraft are now available:
  • Hyperion's South (Released 26 April 2010)
    Myriad shadows cover the pitted surface of Saturn's small moon Hyperion in this Cassini spacecraft image, which shows the moon's south pole on the right.
  • Woven Shadow (Released 27 April 2010)
    Part of the shadow of Saturn's moon Epimetheus appears as if it has been woven through the planet's rings in this Cassini image taken about a month and a half before the planet's August 2009 equinox.
  • West of the Probe (Released 28 April 2010)
    The Cassini spacecraft peers through Titan's atmosphere at the region called Adiri, west of the landing site of the Huygens probe on the anti-Saturn side of the moon.
  • Shadows from the Waves (Released 29 April 2010)
    Shadows are cast by Daphnis and the moon's attendant edge waves in this Cassini spacecraft image taken about a month and a half before the Saturn's August 2009 equinox.
  • Crescent at Equinox (Released 30 April 2010)
    The Cassini spacecraft looks down and pictures Saturn wrapped in a pencil-thin shadow of the rings just days after the planet's August 2009 equinox.

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