Saturn: New photos from Cassini's recent Enceladus flyby

Carolyn Porco, Cassini Imaging Team Leader and Director of CICLOPS (Cassini Imaging Central Laboratory for Operations), says:

Just down on the ground this morning and posted to the CICLOPS website: New raw (unprocessed) images from Cassini's recent non-targeted flyby of my favorite moon, icy Enceladus.
Also, stay tuned for several `targeted' flybys of Enceladus coming up in the next several months. We have three encounters between October 1 and November 6 this year, with closest approach distances ranging from 99 to 1231 kilometers, and another three between March 27 and May 2 of 2012, all with closest approaches about 75 kilometers. Should be grand.

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tamgoddess

Freaking gorgeous.
http://pileofnearmisses.tumblr.com pileofnearmisses

OK, who has been snowmobiling all over Enceladus? The groomers spent all day on making it look nice and now, this.
tamgoddess

The place needs a zamboni now.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stefan_e_jones/ Stefan Jones

Zamboni, hell, I want to see a monolith.

HEY, all you Internet billionaire turned space entreprenuers? One of you needs to secretly hurl an inflatable monolith. Land it on the Moon, or a moon. Anywhere that NASA is liable to find it.

By the time they launch an expedition and discover it is a fake we’ll have the deep space travel infrastructure and may as well keep on exploring.
http://www.facebook.com/mark.crummett Mark Crummett

Looks like a good place for a rebel base.
- peromyscus
  
  What? Your tauntaun will freeze before you reach the first marker!
  - bbonyx
    
    Then I’ll see you in hell!
neurolux

Can you imagine the street value of this moon?
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=607675355 Brent Kirkham

Carolyn Porco is a joy to watch. So enthusiastic. Cassini FTW!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxXa9pxwzoY
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=607675355 Brent Kirkham

Oh, and the obligatory:

“ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS EXCEPT EUROPA. ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE.”
http://twitter.com/Rosssin Rosin

Xeni, this is a ping-pong ball after you crached it inbetween your bike-riding-seasoned legs.
http://herocious.tumblr.com/ herocious

I think I want to go there
bbonyx

Looks like then entire thing is made of Hydrocal. Reminds me of my days in ARCH.
http://semantiikkaa.blogspot.com/ Sebastian Mäki

Does luxury mineral water business sound good anyone? I just need a ship.