[X] My Assistant

[Decepticon]

It's been a while since a Titan flyby, Exciement builds up once again!

[volcanopele]

T6 preview now up:

http://volcanopele.blogspot.com/2005/08/ti...flyby-info.html

T6 pdf:

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/prod...ting3_FINAL.pdf

[JRehling]

Jason, will the ISS ridealong give us best-yet coverage of the broad region around the western portion of the H? For now, I'm as eager to see the global picture get sharpened from >10 km resolution to <3 km resolution as I am to see more subkilometer closeups. This geometry will let us "patch" a big fuzzy area of the map. I assume that wide angle snaps will do this if narrow angle snaps before the flyby don't; can you verify that?

We're getting close to time to start making the first decent Titan globes...

[volcanopele]

Jason, will the ISS ridealong give us best-yet coverage of the broad region around the western portion of the H? For now, I'm as eager to see the global picture get sharpened from >10 km resolution to <3 km resolution as I am to see more subkilometer closeups. This geometry will let us "patch" a big fuzzy area of the map. I assume that wide angle snaps will do this if narrow angle snaps before the flyby don't; can you verify that?

We're getting close to time to start making the first decent Titan globes...

There will be some 2-5 km WAC imaging, but I usually shun those, because of the lack of an MT1 filter on the wide-angle camera. Now T7 in September, THAT's the encounter I am looking forward too

[JRehling]

There will be some 2-5 km WAC imaging, but I usually shun those, because of the lack of an MT1 filter on the wide-angle camera.

It looks from the T6 coverage map like the 2-5 km coverage will hit the areas I was craving for. I assume that will be MT1 with the WAC -- the resolution that is quoted would be a joke if it were with the clear filter.

Of the portions of Titan in daylight, we've still got about a third of it to go to get nice (< 3 km / pixel) coverage. Those multiple flybys hitting the same longitudes over and over sure hurt the drive towards completeness! (Unavoidable, I know, and nice for other reasons -- but they hurt when one's waiting for the map to be filled in!)

3 km / pixel will look nice on a 12" globe, making "pixels" of about 140 dpi, which is very nice, and of course many areas will be mapped even better. (Yes, that's a unit conversion that could kill MCO many times over.) When the first pass over the north pole takes place after equinox (it may be around autumn 2010 when that is possible), save a spot on your desk for a really high-quality Titan globe. Now we just need some broad VIMS data to slap a color overlay on the ISS base. And a non-garish interpretation of those colors...