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[SigurRosFan]

Very interesting ...

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA02145 - Mapping Titan's Changes

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA02147 - An Infrared Map of Titan

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA02146 - An Infrared Movie of Titan

[ugordan]

Check out the VIMS instrument's official site. A hilarious thing strikes me in the second paragraph:

The Cassini space shuttle was launched October 15, 1997. Since then, it has traveled more than 20 billion miles across the Solar System, capturing images of Venus, Jupiter, and the Earth's moon.

You'd think that, by now, they'd know just what kind of spacecraft their camera is mounted on and how many miles it had actually travelled...

One of those OMFG moments...

[Jeff7]

Check out the VIMS instrument's official site. A hilarious thing strikes me in the second paragraph:

"The Cassini space shuttle was launched October 15, 1997. Since then, it has traveled more than 20 billion miles across the Solar System, capturing images of Venus, Jupiter, and the Earth's moon."

You'd think that, by now, they'd know just what kind of spacecraft their camera is mounted on and how many miles it had actually travelled... 

One of those OMFG moments...

Well, I guess in a manner of speaking, it is a space shuttle. It's travelling into space, shuttling a bundle of instruments to Saturn. And heck, it even had a payload that it was able to successfully deliver.

But damn, 20 billion miles? Did it wave to the Voyagers as it passed by?

[Guest_AlexBlackwell_*]

But damn, 20 billion miles? Did it wave to the Voyagers as it passed by?

How many billions of miles long was the VVEJGA trajectory?