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Unmanned Spaceflight.com _ Titan _ Titan NT flyby

Posted by: ugordan Aug 18 2006, 10:45 AM

Apparently, Cassini will pass within 340 000 km of Titan today. This distance is comparable to the first nontargeted Titan flyby (T-0) just after SOI on July 2, 2004. The phase (120 deg) is unfavorable for imaging, but are any observations planned? I figure Titan's northern latitudes should be exposed, though mostly in darkness.

http://space.jpl.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/wspace?tbody=606&vbody=-82&month=8&day=18&year=2006&hour=18&minute=00&fovmul=1&rfov=3.5&bfov=30&porbs=1&showsc=1

Posted by: remcook Aug 18 2006, 11:07 AM

this was taken last week:

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/raw-images-details.cfm?feiImageID=80597

i imagine there will be some snapshots at least

Posted by: alan Aug 23 2006, 01:30 AM

A couple of subtle cloud bands visible on the left.
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS23/N00064897.jpg

Bandpass filtered image