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[Decepticon]

Can someone point me in the right direction to any full Radar Swath releases.

For some unknown reason I can't find mine on my PC.


Thanks.

[elakdawalla]

By the way, I've posted a page with the full swaths (thanks, Jason, for retrieving those from the PDS for us all) -- as well as my attempts to reconstruct the patches of the swaths that haven't been fully released yet -- here. I also got a list of future SAR passes from a friend and posted it at the bottom of the page. I hadn't seen that list anywhere on the Web before so I thought it might be useful. Here it is, for the curious:

Future flybys that are currently planned to include SAR imaging:
T16 (July 22, 2006)
T17 (September 7, 2006) - ride-along (with INMS), possibly at less than optimal attitude
T18 (September 23, 2006) - ride-along (with INMS), possibly at less than optimal attitude
T19 (October 9, 2006)
T21 (December 12, 2006)- ride-along (with INMS), possibly at less than optimal attitude
T23 (January 13, 2007)
T25 (February 22, 2007)
T28 (April 10, 2007)
T29 (April 26, 2007)
T30 (May 12, 2007)
T39 (December 20, 2007)
T41 (February 22, 2008)
T43 (May 12, 2008)
T44 (May 28, 2008) - maybe; the planners are carrying two options, one of them SAR.

A little story about the Ta and T3 swaths -- I downloaded them from that Stanford website when Jason posted about their availability in his blog, and re-posted them on the Society's old website. They were still available on the old pages when we switched to our new site design last October, but I hadn't yet ported them over to the new site. Then, in December, I got an email from a RADAR team member, asking me how I'd come by them, because a paper had appeared by some in press by some non-Cassini scientists analyzing some of the data, which was not yet released to the PDS. (Jason talked about that here.) It seems that in the interim, the RADAR team had shut down the "leak" from Stanford (from a team member who apparently didn't understand the data release process), but hadn't known that I'd reposted them...oops. I hadn't meant to contribute to that bit of uncool scientific behavior. Fortunately the RADAR team didn't cast any blame on me for the incident; they were quite nice about it, actually. At the RADAR team's request I removed the images from the old website last December -- but since they appeared in the PDS in January it was safe for me to put them back up.

--Emily

[Thorsten]

By the way, I've posted a page with the full swaths (thanks, Jason, for retrieving those from the PDS for us all) -- as well as my attempts to reconstruct the patches of the swaths that haven't been fully released yet

Wow! Thanks a lot, Emily!

BTW, I’m not sure if this is helpful for you, but in one of the Titan vision studies from the October 6–7, 2005 OPAG Meeting (http://www.lpi.usra.edu/opag/oct_05_meeting/jpl_titan.pdf) there are two beautiful parts from – what I believe is – the T7 (Sept. 7, 2005) SAR radar swath. The image on Page 6 of the vision study is northwest (left) of PIA03564 (Canyonlands of Titan) and shows some mountainous/hilly region probably in Central Tsegihi. The region shown on Page 8 is between PIA03565 (Titan's Rain Drains to the Plains) and PIA03563 (Shoreline on Titan?). You can see the rivers of PIA03565 flowing into that strange RADAR bright stuff.
However I don’t know if it is illegal or immoral to post these parts of the T7 swath because they are actually not yet publically released. Hope, I’m not involved in any kind of scientific misconduct right now!

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