See the actual flyby in Cassini's images: http://www.youtube.com/watc...
The animation illustrates spaceprobe Cassini's close flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus in March 2008. At it's closest the spa...
See the actual flyby in Cassini's images: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5PqLP... The animation illustrates spaceprobe Cassini's close flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus in March 2008. At it's closest the spacecraft was about 50 km (30 miles) above the surface of Enceladus.
Animation made by Brent Buffington, the Cassini Navigation team.
The squares you see are field of views of different instruments onboard Cassini. During flyby each instrument has its turn to take measurements.
Legend: UVIS(Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph)=long narrow magenta field of view
VIMS(Visible-Infrared Mapping Spectrometer)=big red square
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