- Raw and unprocessed image of Saturn’s Tethys taken by Cassini spacecraft. Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
The word is in…and so are the new photos!
The Cassini Imaging Central Laboratory for Operations (CICLOPS) posted today the raw preview of imagery taken by the Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn of Enceladus, Tethys and Dione.
These raw, unprocessed images were taken of these moons of Saturn on August 13-14th.
“Just down on the ground today … images from Cassini’s close flybys of Tethys, Dione and Enceladus this weekend,” notes Carolyn Porco, Cassini Imaging Team Leader and Director of CICLOPS at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the Cassini-Huygens mission for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington, D.C.
The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging team consists of scientists from the U.S., England, France, and Germany.
“See some gorgeous raw images of these very different Saturnian moons,” Porco adds, by going to:
http://www.ciclops.org/view_event/140/Enceladus_Tethys_and_Dione_Rev_136_Raw_Preview
By LD/CSE