Comments on: Cassini "Skeet Shoot" of Enceladus a Success

By: Astrofiend

Astrofiend — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 01:51:30 +0000

Amazing. It never fails to surprise me how varied and thoroughly interesting the surfaces that the various solar system bodies possess can be.

By: R2K

R2K — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:54:49 +0000

"Can someone please explain what would cause this."

Lots and lots of water! We have about 5 lander targets now among the saturnian and jupiterian moons alone. Start working on some RTG submarines as well.

By: LLDIAZ

LLDIAZ — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:23:20 +0000

On the lower right side of the first picture there are crater like formations running along a crack. Its not the craters that surprise me its the amount of them all lined up and following the crack even when the crack curves they still follow. Can someone please explain what would cause this.

By: Aodhhan

Aodhhan — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:48:23 +0000

A lot less "political friction" and interference with unmanned projects.

By: neil

neil — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:54:18 +0000

As bad as NASA has dropped the ball with manned spaceflight, its robotic missions are top notch.

By: R2K

R2K — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:31:11 +0000

Great pics, but can you do me a favor and flip this image?

The light is coming from the wrong direction and all I see are retarcs, skcarcs, and llihs.

By: Jorge

Jorge — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:07:24 +0000

Cassini is a helluva spacecraft, and this wonderful success only emphasizes that.

And from this distance, Enceladus looks a whole lot like Europa. A truly bizarre little world…

By: giovanni abatematteo

giovanni abatematteo — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:38:05 +0000

spectacular, cassini , wondrous job.

By: Aodhhan

Aodhhan — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:57:08 +0000

How about a round of applause for the trajectory team, who managed to get so close while slowly moving towards a 70 degree inclination!
Well done!

By: test

test — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:54:17 +0000

Wow! Amazing!

If only we could get pictures like that of all (or most) of our solar system's moons!

By: Kevin F.

Kevin F. — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:23:14 +0000

Truly great work.

By: s0l

s0l — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 09:36:11 +0000

Amazing shots!!!

Best mission since Voyager ; congratulations to Nasa & Esa, here's one thing where they've had vision, ambition & most importantly didn't mess up!

By: John

John — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:31:05 +0000

Fantastic.

By: Qaiss

Qaiss — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 06:24:26 +0000

Another amazing work for the Cassini team

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 05:29:48 +0000

Congrats to the imaging team! Looks like the skeets were blasted in the first try.

Stunning images. Look at the boulders and small details. Way cool!