Cassini-Huygens Flyby of Phoebe (Outermost Saturn Moon) on June 11

Space Daily ^ | June 10, 2004

[cogitator]

These images should be pretty interesting, but I'll bet they end up looking similar to other comets, like Wild-2 (Stardust encounter) and Borrelly (Deep Space 1 encounter).

[Monty22]

Titan:

Phoebe:

[Monty22]

Closer to the moon:

by the hour it gets sharper.

[longshadow]

Saturnian ping

[PatrickHenry]

Science list ping (a subset of the evolution list). FReepmail me to be added or dropped.

[Godebert]

[Godebert]

It will be fun to see the close-ups of this moon when the Cassini probe encounters it.

[Ichneumon]

Cassini-Huygens Flyby of Phoebe

What, no one's posted any Lisa Kudrow images yet? It's getting too serious around here. ;-)

[Doctor Stochastic]

Looks a bit like a celestial golf ball.

[RadioAstronomer]

This is getting pretty exciting! :-)

[tortoise]

Madness. My curiosity always gets the better of me. I eat this stuff up.

Titan is bloody huge. It would be a planet if it were circling a star instead of a planet.

[RadioAstronomer]

Madness. My curiosity always gets the better of me. I eat this stuff up.

You said it! :-)

[Boot Hill]

“Cassini will become the first spacecraft to orbit Saturn.”

It's going to mighty crowded around Saturn. Exclusive of Saturn's rings, there are 30 natural satellites orbiting that planet. I hope someone remembered to call ahead for reservations!

--Boot Hill

[LibWhacker]

I can't wait to get a close up look at those moons. And the landing on Titan is going to be outta this world -- literally! :-)

[djf]

I think the interesting stuff is still happening on Mars. There are people who say the pictures show obvious evidence of trilobites and stromatolites. One of the early pics I saw from the Spirit rover showed a trilobite as plain as day, like I was holding it in my hand.

[Straight Vermonter]

Be careful if you get too close to Saturn.

[Ichneumon]

Looks a bit like a celestial golf ball.

Looks even more like one of these:

[kidd]

Eight hours to go to flyby!

Could some pictures be ready for the evening news?

[Shryke]

Hey RA! Did you have any input on Cassini? This is very exciting.

[cogitator]

I agree, but I'd really like a better look at Iapetus. Particularly to see if the Stargate is still there (reference to the original "2001: A Space Odyssey" novel by Arthur C. Clarke).