Cassini returns close-up images of Enceladus 'tiger stripes'

Cassini returns close-up images of moon's 'tiger stripes'

We have been waiting for this. Well I have anyway....

At least the crew working on this are not lacking confidence...

"Damn, we do good work," ISS team leader Carolyn Porco of the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado, exclaimed in an email.

But considering the technique used to get the pics i would be excited as well.

But the probe was moving too fast and too low – it came within 50 kilometres of the surface at its closest point – to properly aim its camera system.
So instead it attempted an unusual manoeuvre that NASA scientists compare to skeet shooting. The Cassini team aimed the camera like the barrel of a gun just ahead of the moon, and spun the spaceship to try to keep up as the moon raced by at 64,000 kilometres per hour.

[edit on 13/8/2008 by VIKINGANT]

Absolutely awesome. I've been following Cassini since I was 10 years old. I'll be 19 next month.... Such a long time, and never a disappointment! Sounds like the team working with this probe absolutely loves what they do.