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Cassini SAR, Four stripes for SAR?
Harkeppler
post Nov 7 2005, 10:13 PM
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Hello!

I am wondering why the SAR on Cassini is producing segments of the radar path, in most cases four parallel stripes per flyby. Does anyone know how the instrumentsworks exactly?
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djellison
post Nov 7 2005, 10:30 PM
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I'm sure people better informed than myself will be able to tell you - but as I understand it - the spacecraft essentially 'paints' that pattern onto the surface by slewing left and right in 4 stripes during closest approach.

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- Harkeppler   Cassini SAR   Nov 7 2005, 10:13 PM
- - djellison   I'm sure people better informed than myself wi...   Nov 7 2005, 10:30 PM
- - elakdawalla   QUOTE (Harkeppler @ Nov 7 2005, 03:13 PM)Hell...   Nov 8 2005, 01:17 AM
|- - Harkeppler   Thanks a lot! That was exactly I was looking f...   Nov 8 2005, 07:14 PM
- - BruceMoomaw   This is also why the long map strips produced on e...   Nov 8 2005, 01:59 AM
|- - jmknapp   The pattern of the five beams, is as follows. extr...   Nov 8 2005, 03:01 AM
||- - tfisher   QUOTE (jmknapp @ Nov 7 2005, 11:01 PM) I t...   Nov 8 2005, 03:38 AM
||- - jmknapp   QUOTE (tfisher @ Nov 7 2005, 11:38 PM)I think...   Nov 8 2005, 12:26 PM
|- - elakdawalla   QUOTE (BruceMoomaw @ Nov 7 2005, 06:59 PM)Thi...   Nov 8 2005, 04:07 PM
- - Roly   This probably a really obvious question, but I...   Oct 3 2006, 03:08 PM
- - JRehling   QUOTE (Roly @ Oct 3 2006, 08:08 AM) This ...   Oct 3 2006, 04:31 PM
- - ugordan   It has been reported (though I can't remember ...   Oct 3 2006, 04:47 PM
- - Roly   Thanks for the responses, they were most helpful, ...   Oct 4 2006, 01:50 PM

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