Skip to content

Unexplainable.net

Watching The World Change

  • Haunted Sites in St. Petersburg, Florida Ghost And Demons
  • Secrets of the Emperors Tomb Simply Unexplainable
  • Archaeology in Gaza Ancient Civilizations
  • Archeology News of November 2009 Other Exciting News
  • Stock Market Crash Within Weeks Political Conspiracies
  • 911 Call Documents Couple Terrorized by Bigfoot Simply Unexplainable
  • UFO History of Michigan: Scorpion Aircraft UFOs and Aliens
  • Afterlife Communication – they’re closer than you think Ghost And Demons

Cassini Gets Pictures Of Saturns Moon Phoebe

Posted on June 15, 2004 By jim No Comments on Cassini Gets Pictures Of Saturns Moon Phoebe
Mooker

First images from the Cassini flyby of Phoebe reveal it to be a scarred, cratered outpost with a very old surface and a mysterious past, and a great deal of variation in surface brightness across its surface.

Image below: Two views of Phoebe, seen by Cassini during its flyby. Image credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute. 

“What spectacular images,” said Dr. Carolyn Porco, Cassini Imaging Team leader at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo. “So sharp and clear and showing a great many geological features, large and small. It’s obvious a lot of new insights into the origin of this strange body will come as a result of all this.”

“What we are seeing is very neat. Phoebe is a heavily cratered body. We might be seeing one of the chunks from the formation of the solar system, 4.5 billion years ago. It’s too soon to say,” said Dr. Torrence Johnson, Cassini imaging team member at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. “It’s important to see the big picture from all of the other instruments to get the global view on this tiny moon.”

Dr. Gerhard Neukum, an imaging team member from Freie University in Berlin, said, “It is very interesting and quite clear that a lot of craters smaller than a kilometer are visible. This means, besides the big-ones, lots of projectiles smaller than 100 meters (328 feet) have hit Phoebe.” Whether these projectiles came from outside or within the Saturn system is debatable.

There is a suspicion that Phoebe, the largest of Saturn’s outer moons, might be parent to the other, much smaller retrograde outer moons that orbit Saturn.

Dr. Joseph Burns, an imaging team member and professor at Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. said, “Looking at those big 50 kilometers (31 mile) craters, one has to wonder whether their impact ejecta might be the other tiny moons that orbit Saturn on paths much like Phoebe’s.”

All planned 11 instruments operated as expected and all data was acquired. Scientists plan to use the data to create global maps of the cratered moon, and to determine Phoebe?s composition, mass and density. It will take scientists several days to pour over the data to make more concrete conclusions.

Cassini came within approximately 2,068 kilometers (about 1,285 miles) of the dark moon on Friday, June 11. The spacecraft was pointing its instruments at the moon during the flyby. Several hours later it turned to point its antenna to Earth. The signal was received through the Deep Space Network antennas in Madrid, Spain and Goldstone, in California?s Mojave Desert, at 7:52 a.m. PDT today. Cassini was traveling at a relative speed of 20,900 kilometers per hour (13,000 miles per hour) relative to Saturn. It?s been 23 years since a spacecraft last visited Phoebe. The Voyager 2 flyby in 1981 was at a distance from 2.2 million kilometers, (about 1.4 million miles), 1,000 times farther away.

With the Phoebe accomplished, Cassini is on course for Saturn. A trajectory correction maneuver is scheduled for June 16. Cassini will conduct a critical 96-minute burn before going into orbit around Saturn on June 30 (July 1 Universal Time). During Cassini’s planned four-year tour it will conduct 76 orbits around the Saturn system and execute 52 close encounters with seven of Saturn?s 31 known moons.

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 Office of Space Science, Washington, D.C. 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.

more pages:

Information and Theories – Jun 3, 2004, 03:08
Tao Te Ching- The way of Heaven is to help and not harm

Simply Unexplainable – Jun 3, 2004, 03:00
Secrets Of The Sutra

Information and Theories – Jun 3, 2004, 02:58
Secret sayings that Jesus spoke to Didymos Judas Thomas

Information and Theories – Jun 3, 2004, 02:56
NSA Job Interviews With a Twist

Mars Rover Mission Coverage – Jun 3, 2004, 02:50
Both Rovers Still Healthy – Opportunity Seeks Layered Crater

Space and Astrology – Jun 1, 2004, 17:14
Black Holes Reveal More Clues

Information and Theories – May 31, 2004, 11:37
“The Day After Tomorrow” might happen today or tomorrow

Information and Theories – May 31, 2004, 06:47
Can Your Health Benefit From Radiation?

Simply Unexplainable – May 30, 2004, 06:10
Nuclear fusion is realized by photo-electric-magneto-thermal effect

Mars Rover Mission Coverage – May 30, 2004, 06:03
Rovers Study stadium-sized impact crater On Mars

Other Exciting News – May 27, 2004, 18:53
The Day After Tomorrow and The Caribbean Floods

Simply Unexplainable – May 26, 2004, 18:04
Polar Shift – When the Earth’s Poles Flip

Space and Astrology

Post navigation

Previous Post: Cassini observes Saturn’s Moon “Phoebe”
Next Post: Images Sent By Cassini Suggest Phoebe is Ice Rich

Related Posts

  • Phoebe Skyline Picture Peers Over Phoebe’s Horizon Space and Astrology
  • An Introduction to Chinese Astrology Space and Astrology
  • Deep Space Nine: Where Are They Now? 6 Space and Astrology
  • Are You a Leo? Part 2 Space and Astrology
  • Pluto Space and Astrology
  • Kepler’s Laws of Planetary Motion Space and Astrology

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Recent Posts

  • Mahavatar Babaji: The Yogi alive for 2000 years
  • Spirituality and science conflict
  • Conspiracies and myths about spirituality
  • Know your Ki: Reiki
  • 10 amazing plants to promote spirituality and positivity

Recent Comments

No comments to show.

Archives

  • January 2021
  • December 2020
  • November 2020
  • October 2020
  • August 2020
  • July 2020
  • May 2020
  • June 2018
  • February 2018
  • July 2016
  • May 2016
  • February 2016
  • September 2015
  • July 2015
  • May 2015
  • April 2015
  • March 2015
  • January 2015
  • December 2014
  • November 2014
  • July 2014
  • March 2014
  • February 2014
  • January 2014
  • December 2013
  • November 2013
  • October 2013
  • September 2013
  • August 2013
  • July 2013
  • June 2013
  • May 2013
  • April 2013
  • March 2013
  • February 2013
  • January 2013
  • December 2012
  • November 2012
  • October 2012
  • September 2012
  • August 2012
  • July 2012
  • June 2012
  • May 2012
  • April 2012
  • March 2012
  • February 2012
  • January 2012
  • December 2011
  • November 2011
  • October 2011
  • September 2011
  • August 2011
  • July 2011
  • June 2011
  • May 2011
  • April 2011
  • March 2011
  • February 2011
  • January 2011
  • December 2010
  • November 2010
  • October 2010
  • September 2010
  • August 2010
  • July 2010
  • June 2010
  • May 2010
  • April 2010
  • March 2010
  • February 2010
  • January 2010
  • December 2009
  • November 2009
  • October 2009
  • September 2009
  • August 2009
  • July 2009
  • June 2009
  • May 2009
  • April 2009
  • March 2009
  • February 2009
  • January 2009
  • December 2008
  • November 2008
  • October 2008
  • September 2008
  • August 2008
  • July 2008
  • June 2008
  • May 2008
  • April 2008
  • March 2008
  • February 2008
  • January 2008
  • December 2007
  • November 2007
  • October 2007
  • September 2007
  • August 2007
  • July 2007
  • June 2007
  • May 2007
  • April 2007
  • March 2007
  • February 2007
  • January 2007
  • December 2006
  • November 2006
  • October 2006
  • September 2006
  • August 2006
  • July 2006
  • June 2006
  • May 2006
  • April 2006
  • March 2006
  • February 2006
  • January 2006
  • December 2005
  • November 2005
  • October 2005
  • September 2005
  • August 2005
  • July 2005
  • June 2005
  • May 2005
  • April 2005
  • March 2005
  • February 2005
  • January 2005
  • December 2004
  • November 2004
  • October 2004
  • September 2004
  • August 2004
  • July 2004
  • June 2004
  • May 2004
  • April 2004
  • March 2004
  • February 2004
  • January 2004
  • December 2003
  • November 2003
  • October 2003

Categories

  • Ancient Civilizations
  • Benjamin Fulford Story
  • Cryptology and Monsters
  • Eating Healthy
  • Ghost And Demons
  • Information and Theories
  • Mars Coverage
  • Meditation And Spirituality
  • Mysteries
  • NASA Articles
  • Other Exciting News
  • Personal Accounts
  • Pictures And Multimedia
  • Political Conspiracies
  • Recent Submissions
  • Religion Articles
  • Self Improvement
  • Simply Unexplainable
  • Space and Astrology
  • Technology Articles
  • True Stories
  • UFOs and Aliens
  • Unexplainable Video Library
  • Unexplainable Weather
  • Getting Ghosts to Stop By On Halloween Ghost And Demons
  • Coronal Mass Ejections Are Massive solar eruptions Space and Astrology
  • Lucky & Unluckiness Within the Chinese Culture Meditation And Spirituality
  • Will Google Mars Lead Us To Finding Martians? Mars Coverage
  • Historic Steles , Outside Funerary Purposes Ancient Civilizations
  • Who is St. George? Information and Theories
  • Elvis Sightings – The Fall From Graceland Ghost And Demons
  • Curious Use of Single Eye Symbolism by Christian Singer tobyMac Religion Articles

Copyright © 2023 Unexplainable.net.

Powered by PressBook News Dark theme