NASA's Cassini reveils image of icy moon Helene
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has successfully completed its
second-closest encounter with Saturn's icy moon Helene, beaming down
raw images of the small moon, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) said
on Monday.
At closest approach on June 18 Cassini flew within 4,330 miles
(6,968 kilometers) of Helene's surface, the second closest approach to
Helene of the entire mission, said JPL in Pasadena, Los Angeles.
This flyby will enable scientists to finish creating a global map
of Helene, so they can better understand the history of impacts to the
moon and gully-like features seen on previous flybys, according to JPL.
Passing from Helene's night side to the moon's sunlit side, Cassini
also captured images of the Saturn-facing side of the moon in sunlight,
a region that was only illuminated by sunlight reflected off Saturn the
last time Cassini closely encountered with the moon in March 2010.
The closest Helene encounter of the mission took place on March 10,
2010, when Cassini flew within 1,131 miles (1,820 kilometers) of the
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