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Cassini Images of Jupiter Studied

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En route to Saturn, the Cassini spacecraft, a joint mission of NASA, the European Space Agencyand the Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, took advantage of its Jupiter flyby to test its two-camera Imaging Science Subsystem, collecting approximately 26,000 images from October 2000 to March 2001. In the March 7 issue of Science, an international team of researchers working on the project released its analysis of the images of the planet's atmosphere, auroras, moons and rings. The instrument features a wide-angle camera with an angular resolution of 60 µrad per pixel and a narrow-angle camera with an...Read full article

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    Published: April 2003
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