SETI bioastro: Great new image of Saturn from the Cassini probe

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From: LARRY KLAES (ljk4_at_msn.com)
Date: Fri Dec 05 2003 - 08:48:45 PST

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    A new picture of Saturn taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft is a pleasant appetizer to a steady fare of unprecedented images expected early next year.
    Cassini was 69 million miles (111 million kilometers) from Saturn when it took the photograph. It is scheduled to arrive July 1, 2004 and start a four-year primary mission. It will begin sending images regularly in February.
    "Already, we are seeing familiar and sharp details, like the structure in the Saturn B ring, the Encke gap in the outermost A ring and five of Saturn's icy satellites," said Cassini imaging team leader Carolyn Porco at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado. "And we are still very far away."
    Data for the photograph was gathered last month and it was released early this morning.

    http://space.com/scienceastronomy/saturn_image_031205.html

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