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[titanicrivers]

Raw images from the T64 Titan encounter are now up on the Cassini web site. This interesting flyby is described in Ciclops looking ahead here: http://ciclops.org/view/6082/Rev123
Some nice ISS images from the outbound montage of the Adiri region are shown below.

[titanicrivers]

T64 also included a passage over Titan's North pole and an opportunity to obtain SAR data over two large polar lakes (Ligeia and Punga Mare). Changes in shorelines may be found when comparing T64 SAR with SAR images of several years ago, reflecting an active N polar weather pattern with ethane-methane percipitation and evaporation. I could not quite get the SAR pass of the Spilker map http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...st&id=19154 into a polar projection, so the figure below shows the spacecraft ground tract (taken from the mission description http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/files/20091228_...description.pdf ) and the position of the lakes to be evaluated.