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Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
An image from Cassini's most recent fly-by of Enceladus taken from the astronomical hairbreadth of 2,500km above the surface. Well worth clicking to view the full image.
At it's closest approach, Cassini reached within 50km of the ground. If that seems close, the next fly-by of this intriguing and geologically active moon will pass within only 25km. All these daredevil antics, you might suspect a robot of a mid-life crisis...
Read the news item here, or the Cassini blog here.
2 comments:
Looks like the mountains in BC...
I was just there.
Thx for the kind thoughts...
Mid life crisis robots :)
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