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Just saw this on the Bautforum.com space board:

Enceladus-flyby-Mar2008
Culling Through It All!
Mar 15, 2008 03:11:38 PM
Linda Spilker, Cassini Deputy Project Scientist
"It's been a whirlwind here at JPL as the data from the Enceladus
flyby comes pouring in, and we scientists have been doing our
thing . . . culling through it all! Sometimes there's so much to
choose from that I feel like a kid in a candy story. There is much
excited email chatter among the many Cassini teams, all suggesting
awesome findings. These first-looks are being matured by the team
members, and we have begun to share and compare results.
You may have already seen the press release from JPL explaining that
the
Cosmic Dust Analyzer (CDA) had an unfortunate software hiccup at
closest approach to Enceladus and their data was not recorded. The CDA
instrument measures the composition of small particles that hit the
instrument, which is an important thing to do at Enceladus to
understand its geyser-like jets. But like all small bumps on the road
to discovery, we will find out what happened, fix it and get on with
our business about the Saturn system. And what an amazing system it
is.
On the very bright side, all of the other fields and particles
instruments and remote sensing instruments, worked perfectly at
Enceladus. They are returning fantastic data and providing an
incredible look around and inside the plume, and of the surface. The
fields and particles instruments are complementary to CDA and provide
information on particle composition and characteristics, among other
things.
As soon as possible in the week or two ahead, we will be able to
announce the preliminary results to the world. Until then, I'm
waiting like the rest of you are for these data sets to be analyzed,
since the first-looks are looking so great! Stay tuned for some Earth-
shaking -- I mean moon-shaking -- results!
--Linda"
http://blogs.nasa.gov/cm/blog/Enceladus%20Flyby/posts/post_1205608134918.html

Bob Clark

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