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jccwrt
Orbit summary is here.

Highlights are the final targeted flyby of Enceladus, and a close flyby of the tiny moon Aegeon.


Some of the images from the Enceladus flyby:

The larger of the two approach color sequences.


High-res mosaic using UV images. Terrain looks amazingly like some of the areas where plate tectonics is happening on Europa.


Crescent Enceladus on departure:


Kind of bittersweet, that shot.
jasedm
It looks as though Aegaeon was missed.... sad.gif perhaps because of orbital uncertainties as previously discussed.

Great Enceladus shots though, a fitting final close encounter in the mission.
JRehling
A final Enceladus flyby really gets one thinking in both directions in time – 11 years since Cassini arrived and elevated the excitement from Voyager into confirmation of something wonderful, and an unknown wait until the next Enceladus mission, which would surely be sooner if it weren't so darned far. That's a distance which is easily forgotten because Cassini has been such an able envoy for us in the outer solar system. But one of these days, something's going to fly through those plumes and do first-rate science and/or bring a sample back.
eliBonora
Here my last "goodbye" to Enceladus

Ian R
That's just gorgeous, Eli ohmy.gif
nprev
Agreed...absolutely stunning.
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