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Cassini's Hyperion fly-by

14 July 2005

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This movie sequence provides the record of Cassini's first close brush with Hyperion, Saturn's chaotically tumbling moon.

This series of 25 images was taken over a period of nearly two and a half days, between 9 and 11 June 2005, as Cassini's orbit took it close to Hyperion.

At the beginning of the movie Cassini was approximately 815 000 kilometres from Hyperion; at the end, the spacecraft was 327 000 kilometres distant. The closest image was acquired from a distance of 168 000 kilometres.

The images were taken using the narrow-angle camera and a spectral filter sensitive to ultraviolet wavelengths centred at 338 nanometres. Image scale ranges from 5 kilometres per pixel at most distant to 1 kilometre at best. The images have been enhanced to improve the visibility of surface features.

Credits: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

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This is one of a set of Cassini images which are the best views yet of Hyperion, one of the large, low-density objects that orbit Saturn. Hyperion's irregular dimensions are 164 by 130 by 107 kilometres.

The closest image here was acquired from a distance of 168 000 kilometres. The image was taken using the narrow-angle camera and a spectral filter sensitive to ultraviolet wavelengths centred at 338 nanometres. Image scale is about 1 kilometre per pixel at best. The image has been enhanced to improve the visibility of surface features.

Credits: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

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