Close pass on Iapetus

If you like your moons up close:

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.cfm

And all went well except for a galactic cosmic ray hit (from the source):

All the data were successfully recorded on the spacecraft. Twenty-one minutes into the first post-flyby data downlink, the spacecraft went into a precautionary condition called safe mode. The cause has been determined to be a solid state power switch that was tripped due to a galactic cosmic ray hit.

SC Harrison said:

Thanks, Sokal. Awesome stuff.

Did you check out the Titan page? There's a whole lot going on there. Next pass October 2.

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I liked the Large Tectonic Complex:

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/image-details.cfm?imageID=2382

dclary said:

We went 80 billion miles and only took a black and white camera?

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Apparently they can take pictures in wavelengths

(as in "The images were taken at wavelengths of 1.3 microns shown in blue, 2 microns shown in green, and 5 microns shown in red." -- if you're used to thinking in Angstroms that would be 1300, 2000 and 5000, I think)

dclary said:

We went 80 billion miles and only took a black and white camera?

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The instrument.

Here's how it works:

http://wwwvims.lpl.arizona.edu/Howitworks.html