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Unmanned Spaceflight.com _ Titan _ Rev 166-T83 flyby

Posted by: titanicrivers May 16 2012, 07:45 AM

Cassini is now in Rev 166 which sounds quite exciting for us Titan affectionados. See the description here; http://www.ciclops.org/view/7206/Rev166?js=1
An upclose view of Adiri and a SAR swath that will revisit some small lakes near 80N and 150W previously recorded in T16 and T19 are some Titan related highlights.
Using VP's swath maps, Machi's labeled swath map and a grid and the coordinate given in the ciclops preview (red x marks the spot) I've guessed at some of the small lakes that may be visited below.


Posted by: titanicrivers May 17 2012, 06:58 AM

A higher resolution view of above small lakes


Posted by: titanicrivers May 18 2012, 08:12 AM

Polar projection map (thanks VP) for T83 northern lakes revisit, (hopefully labels are accurate!). Brief mission description now on Cassini web page.
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/flybys/titan20120522/


Posted by: Decepticon May 18 2012, 09:13 AM

Im looking forward to this pass.

Posted by: machi May 18 2012, 10:10 AM

I'm looking forward to every SAR swath. We had very long time with only few of them and Titan's map isn't still complete. smile.gif

Posted by: titanicrivers May 19 2012, 02:38 AM

Titan's lakes up north are sometimes likened to the lakes of northern Minnesota and Ontario's Canadian Shield lakes.


Posted by: titanicrivers Jun 8 2012, 09:18 AM

Adiri was imaged by the wide angle camera (WAC) and narrow angle camera (NAC) during T83. The Huygens landing site (HLS) was in view in these images as depicted below. The final image of the sequence superimposes the T8 radar swath of the HLS on a close up of the NAC image.


Posted by: Ian R Jun 8 2012, 05:10 PM

Check out the haze 'cap' at 12 o'clock:


Posted by: jasedm Jun 8 2012, 05:41 PM

Whoa! and this one too...
Looks almost like an aurora!

 

Posted by: jasedm Jun 8 2012, 08:16 PM

A comparison:

Saturn with aurora, and image W00074407 of Titan from June 7th.

Just saying...

 

Posted by: remcook Jun 9 2012, 06:28 PM

It's even visible in the window filters.
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/photos/raw/rawimagedetails/index.cfm?imageID=263878

Posted by: Ian R Jun 9 2012, 08:30 PM

Here are two natural(-ish) color views of Titan, the second of which combines the red, green and blue filters on the luminance channel:


Posted by: ngunn Jun 9 2012, 09:43 PM

It looks like a lenticular cloud stack produced by the upward forcing of pre-exising layers, but that's probably a hopelessly terracentric observation.

Posted by: titanicrivers Jun 23 2012, 02:47 AM

ISS imaged Adiri in this past month during Rev 166- Rev 167. The Huygen’s landing site (red cross below) was included in the T 84 flyby. Stitched together and blended with the eastern portion of the T8 SAR swath a nice correlation of bright albedo patches with bright mesas and craterform structures and dark albedo with dunes can be seen. One of the possible VIMS equatorial lakes (lavender arrow) vs interdune dark material can be seen in the extreme eastern edge of the figure.


Posted by: titanicrivers Oct 17 2012, 03:11 PM

Here's a view of the probable volcanic construct found on the T83 radar. Image and link found here. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2218976/The-giant-hot-cross-bun-Titan-New-pictures-surface-Saturn-s-biggest-moon-baking-cracking-heat.html and a link to the abstract http://www.abstractsonline.com/plan/ViewAbstract.aspx?mID=2924&sKey=7219a0e2-63d6-4c64-889d-2041a9de9fd1&cKey=1946df2c-c199-429c-be2f-d593daf5e357&mKey=%7bC752C15A-58ED-4FA6-9B4A-725245476867%7d
Emily has a nice discussion here http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2012/10170812-dps-day2.html


Posted by: Juramike Oct 18 2012, 05:19 AM

Also as Planetary Photojournal image release PIA16165: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA16165

Posted by: elakdawalla Oct 19 2012, 02:48 AM

In a presentation today Jason Soderblom showed some great VIMS specular reflections from the T83 and T85 flybys. So bright at 5 microns that they saturated the VIMS detector; about twice as bright as adjacent pixels at 2 microns.

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