This computer animation shows the observations to be taken by the Cassini
spacecraft spanning roughly a nine-hour period surrounding its upcoming
flyby of Dione on Dec. 14, 2004. Cassini will pass within 81,400
kilometers (50,600 miles) of the icy moon. Red indicates observations to
be taken in the infrared, white in the visible, and purple in the
ultraviolet. Green indicates radar observations. The name of instrument
team that designed each observation -- Imaging Science Subsystem, Visual
and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer, Composite and Infrared Spectrometer,
Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph and radar, is shown.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the
European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion
Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in
Pasadena, manages the Cassini-Huygens mission for NASA's Office of Space
Science, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard
cameras, were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging team
is based at the Space Science Institute, Boulder, Colo.
For more information, about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit,
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov and the Cassini imaging team home page,
http://ciclops.org.
