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Mission Operations
OVERVIEW
The Cassini Imaging Central Laboratory for Operations (CICLOPS)
is the nerve center for the imaging team of the Cassini mission
to Saturn. All images produced by the two powerful telescopic cameras
onboard Cassini (the Imaging Science Subsystem) make their way
across more than a billion kilometers of space to be archived by
CICLOPS and made available to researchers across the globe.
CICLOPS also is the home of activities related
to the planning of images to be taken by Cassini. Staff work with
the spacecraft’s
flight plan to optimize the imaging opportunities (and thus the scientific
return) at Saturn, capturing the planet, its icy moons and dazzling
rings. MORE...
