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Radio atmospheric profiles?, Is Cassini doing this regularly?
J.J.
post Mar 28 2006, 04:16 PM
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A question I had about the Galileo mission (that I never bothered to ask), and one that I have about this one is: is Cassini performing regular radio occultation experiments each time it passes behind Saturn? It seems to make sense that it is, but IIRC I haven't seen any mention of such profiles in press releases, perhaps because it's mundane or taken for granted.


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post Mar 31 2006, 09:19 AM
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I presume Galileo did radio occultation observations, but they would have been severely degraded by the poor signal-to-noise ration due to the low signal strength of the Galileo Omnidirectional antenna.
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- J.J.   Radio atmospheric profiles?   Mar 28 2006, 04:16 PM
- - AlexBlackwell   QUOTE (J.J. @ Mar 28 2006, 04:16 PM) A qu...   Mar 28 2006, 10:25 PM
- - J.J.   ^ Thanks much.   Mar 30 2006, 10:19 PM
- - edstrick   I presume Galileo did radio occultation observatio...   Mar 31 2006, 09:19 AM

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