T77 Flyby Quick Facts description now up: http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/files/20110620_Titan77_flyby_quicklook.pdf
And the Looking Ahead for Rev 149 from CICLOPS: http://www.ciclops.org/view/6787/Rev149
Most of the RADAR modes being used: radiometry, scatterometry, altimetry, HiSAR, and an SAR Swath near Ksa crater.
Might get a neat 3D view of the crater and ejecta pattern when combined with T17 data.
This looking like a great orbit... Go Cassini!
(I'm on vacation in Europe but back to the proverbial grindstone, AKA frequent UMSF posting, soon)
Phil
The plasma spectrometer is causing wonky things on a voltage bus and is shut off right now... looks like the pointing for this orbit means it's not missing much?
CAPS isn't the prime team for an observation until the 4th of July and then not again until near the end of July.
I'm just hoping that for this Helene flyby the error in the moon's location is smaller than last time so that we actually see it throughout the flyby.
Mosaic made from raw images taken during the flyby (had to use WAC images to fill in the northeast section.)
Nice one Mike. Here’s another taken with the NAC on June 23rd from 1.44M km. The image is centered on Belet and the area recently inundated by the T72 arrow storm. Of interest this area was within the estimated origin of the previous ‘tropical storm’ in April of 2008. Likely this area received methane precip back then as well. Makes one wonder if this area was relatively more ‘saturated’ with methane when the ‘arrow storm’ passed by in Oct. 2010 making the changes from the latter storm more prominent than any other area in its path. The images below are animated to show the T77 image, its coverage on VP’s SAR swath map, the area inundated by the arrow storm (from the Science paper of Turtle et al http://www.sciencemag.org/content/331/6023/1414 and finally the estimated location of the 2008 storm origin (green square in the Gemini N image from the Schaller et al paper http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v460/n7257/abs/nature08193.html
Keep in mind that our image coverage in the weeks and months after last year's storm played a role in where we mapped the areas where we saw changes. We can't rule out that similar dark swaths would have been seen further west in late October had we had the surface coverage.
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA14500
Wow! So familiar, yet so alien.
http://pds-imaging.jpl.nasa.gov/data/cassini/cassini_orbiter/CORADR_0229/DATA/BIDR/ are now available at PDS archive.
Three big craters are visible in those SARs - Ksa, Momoy and Menrva, last one is visible in this cropped image (resolution 1 km/pix, slightly improved by denoising filter from Florian Luisier, EPFL, Switzerland):
Nice.
I don't seem to be able to find the rest of the swath via the link in your post. I'm still waiting for Jason's SAR gallery to get past T65.
Going to try to get the T71 and T77 swaths up in the next couple of hours. In the mean time, here is a stereo image of Ksa.
http://pirlwww.lpl.arizona.edu/~perry/RADAR/Ksa_Stereo_T17_T77.png
T71 and T77 swaths now up:
http://pirlwww.lpl.arizona.edu/~perry/RADAR/
Thanks Jason.
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