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Global ocean discovered on Saturn moon
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RE: Global ocean discovered on Saturn moon
I note Cassini managed quite a few satellite flybys (particularly of Titan) during the steeply inclined phase of it's mission.

Every pass thru the Jovian equatorial plane from a steeply inclined orbit could be near a satellite, and every one of those flybys could be designed to deflect the craft to pass near another (or the same) satellite on the next pass (or a multiple of passes) thru the equatorial plane. And if you had the NH (or similar) camera, even 100,000 km miss distances would yield very good imagery.

A remarkably similar mission could also be conducted at Uranus. (really!)
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Global ocean discovered on Saturn moon - by Cyberman - September 15, 2015 at 9:21 pm
RE: Global ocean discovered on Saturn moon - by Alex K - September 15, 2015 at 9:38 pm
RE: Global ocean discovered on Saturn moon - by vorlon13 - September 15, 2015 at 11:03 pm
RE: Global ocean discovered on Saturn moon - by LastPoet - September 16, 2015 at 5:19 am
RE: Global ocean discovered on Saturn moon - by Alex K - September 16, 2015 at 6:28 am
RE: Global ocean discovered on Saturn moon - by Anomalocaris - September 16, 2015 at 7:43 am
RE: Global ocean discovered on Saturn moon - by ignoramus - September 15, 2015 at 9:57 pm
RE: Global ocean discovered on Saturn moon - by Crossless1 - September 17, 2015 at 5:46 pm
RE: Global ocean discovered on Saturn moon - by dyresand - September 15, 2015 at 10:16 pm
RE: Global ocean discovered on Saturn moon - by Minimalist - September 15, 2015 at 10:35 pm
RE: Global ocean discovered on Saturn moon - by Iroscato - September 16, 2015 at 5:10 am
RE: Global ocean discovered on Saturn moon - by ignoramus - September 15, 2015 at 10:46 pm
RE: Global ocean discovered on Saturn moon - by MentalGiant - September 15, 2015 at 10:50 pm
RE: Global ocean discovered on Saturn moon - by Jackalope - September 17, 2015 at 5:51 pm
RE: Global ocean discovered on Saturn moon - by Cyberman - September 16, 2015 at 5:16 am
RE: Global ocean discovered on Saturn moon - by Jackalope - September 17, 2015 at 5:52 pm
RE: Global ocean discovered on Saturn moon - by Alex K - September 16, 2015 at 6:27 am
RE: Global ocean discovered on Saturn moon - by vorlon13 - September 16, 2015 at 10:28 am
RE: Global ocean discovered on Saturn moon - by vorlon13 - September 17, 2015 at 8:12 pm
RE: Global ocean discovered on Saturn moon - by TheRocketSurgeon - September 17, 2015 at 10:57 pm
RE: Global ocean discovered on Saturn moon - by vorlon13 - September 17, 2015 at 11:13 pm
RE: Global ocean discovered on Saturn moon - by Anomalocaris - September 17, 2015 at 11:30 pm
RE: Global ocean discovered on Saturn moon - by vorlon13 - September 17, 2015 at 11:55 pm

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