Cassini's Photo Album From a Season of Icy Moons

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Image Advisory: 2005-172 December 6, 2005

Cassini's Photo Album From a Season of Icy Moons

Wrapping up a phenomenally successful year of observing Saturn's
icy moons, the Cassini mission is releasing a flood of new views
of the moons Enceladus, Dione, Rhea, Hyperion and Iapetus.

The moons and their intricacies are being highlighted at a news
briefing today at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San
Francisco.

Several new images of Rhea, a moon measuring 1,528 kilometers
(949 miles) across, were taken during Cassini's most recent close
flyby on November 26. During the encounter, Cassini dipped
to within 500 kilometers (310 miles) of Rhea's surface.

Additional new images include two "zoomable" mosaics of Rhea and
Hyperion at high resolution; false-color views revealing
compositional variation on the surfaces of Hyperion, Dione and Rhea;
two movies reproducing Cassini's exciting encounters with Iapetus
and Hyperion; and dazzling new images of the plumes of Enceladus,
including a time-lapse movie.

The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the
European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet
Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of
Technology in Pasadena, manages the Cassini-Huygens mission for
NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. The Cassini orbiter
and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled
at JPL. The imaging team is based at the Space Science Institute,
Boulder, Colo.

The image products being released include large mosaics, movies and
false-color views. They are available at: http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov,
http://www.nasa.gov/cassini and http://ciclops.org .

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