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[Guest_AlexBlackwell_*]

The mission description document is now online (1.03 Mb PDF).

[edstrick]

Is there any GOOD reason....

The perpetual sub-competence of government P.I.O. offices is not a good reason...

for the mission description documents to only cover the titan flybys?.... Every periapsis pass there are other interesting observation sequences, non-targeted moon encounters, etc. Why do they <BLEEP> only press-release a Titan Encounter ONLY document, instead of an "Orbit 18 Titan and Periapsis Observations" document?

[angel1801]

I get annoyed by the same problem too.

I would dearly like each "Revolution" document to state ALL icy moon and Saturn relating imaging and observations.

I have to use the Solar System Simulator to find out all this infomation. And it is time consuming!

[Guest_Sunspot_*]

And it is time consuming!

There's your answer .........

[Mariner9]

For that matter, how much new, or particularly specific, information even on the Titan flyby is in typically in there?

As I recall, last time we had to dig and dig to find any reference at all to the Radar pass. I think I finally found a reference to it in the data playback schedule.

[remcook]

I think part of it is that the only targeted flybys between 2006 and halfway 2007 only involve Titan. There are no other targeted moon flybys.

[Decepticon]

OOOOO nice radar observation! Crosses other sars strips!

[volcanopele]

If it makes you feel any better, there really isn't any icy sat observations this orbit, except for a half-decent observation of Janus, IIRC.

[Matt]

Where was the sar coverage during this flyby?

I know there is going to be more north polar sar covergae but I thought that was the next flyby, T19....

I remember somebody once posted a Titan mosaic showing all the planned sar swaths, and they were outlined in yellow if I remember correctly, not that the yellow outline colour is particularly important, but I can't find it anywhere now!

[ugordan]

I remember somebody once posted a Titan mosaic showing all the planned sar swaths, and they were outlined in yellow if I remember correctly, not that the yellow outline colour is particularly important, but I can't find it anywhere now!

That would be Joe Knapp a.k.a. jmknapp. It's an old post, perhaps a year or so, look it up in the old posts. Note the map only shows reference passes, the RADAR team can turn the spacecraft in the other look direction, i.e. left-right so a different area is mapped. In fact, they might have done just that with this flyby.

[volcanopele]

IIRC, it is another ride-along pass for RADAR, so T18's swath was not as long as say T16 or T8, for example. This pass covered a swath located between the Ta and T16 SAR passes, reach as far north as 70-75 N near 40 W longitude. Like Ta and T16, it then curves south, down to around 30N, 350 W. This is just going from memory, so I may be a bit off, but it lies basically between Ta and T16.

T19 is a prime coverage swath covering terrain basically parallel to T16. The mid point of the swath is a bit north of T16, around 85-86 N. The swath then crosses the T16 swath on to the east and west of that mid-point, halfway out to the ends.

[Decepticon]

I remember somebody once posted a Titan mosaic showing all the planned sar swaths, and they were outlined in yellow if I remember correctly, not that the yellow outline colour is particularly important, but I can't find it anywhere now!

Here ya go Matt!

http://cassinicam.com/titanflybys/

At the bottom.

[Guest_AlexBlackwell_*]

PIA08740: Titan's "Kissing Lakes"
NASA/JPL
September 26, 2006

[ugordan]

Also, see PIA08741: Shorefront Property, Anyone?

[volcanopele]

PIA08740: Titan's "Kissing Lakes"
NASA/JPL
September 26, 2006

These two lakes appear to share the same basin. You can see the bottom margin quite clearly, though the northern one is a little more obscure.