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Rev 199: Nov. 7- Dec. 17 '13, Titan's T96 flyby

Val Klavans View Member Profile	Nov 24 2013, 04:45 AM Post #1
Newbie Group: Members Posts: 17 Joined: 30-November 12 From: Washington, DC Member No.: 6773	Rev199 can be found here: http://www.ciclops.org/view/7726/Rev199 We're finally receiving some good raws from Cassini again! I just put together these three views of Titan, from images snapped by Cassini yesterday (November 22): Three Views of Titan -------------------- Val Klavans Co-Producer of In Saturn's Rings \| Space Image Processor \| Astronomy Communicator \| Guitarist

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Explorer1 View Member Profile	Dec 8 2013, 02:48 AM Post #2
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2119 Joined: 13-February 10 From: Ontario Member No.: 5221	Yeah, don't expect 95% global coverage in Magellan's style. Flybys necessarily limit how much can be scanned even apart from the limited fuel and time for other instruments to do their work. Filling in every white space is largely academic, like getting the exact poles, etc. Cassini can only ever do flybys, though I have vague recollections of some talk early in the mission about the possibility of aerocapture into Titan orbit at the end of the main mission, using the main antenna as a sort of heatshield. Dunno if it was anymore plausible than escaping Saturn for Uranus/Neptune/Centaurs....

djellison View Member Profile	Dec 8 2013, 04:45 AM Post #3
Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14457 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1	QUOTE (Explorer1 @ Dec 7 2013, 06:48 PM) I have vague recollections of some talk early in the mission about the possibility of aerocapture into Titan orbit at the end of the main mission, using the main antenna as a sort of heatshield. Dunno if it was anymore plausible than escaping Saturn for Uranus/Neptune/Centaurs.... None of the above are plausible.

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Val Klavans Rev 199: Nov. 7- Dec. 17 '13 Nov 24 2013, 04:45 AM

titanicrivers Beautiful imaging Val ! (and thanks for the li... Nov 24 2013, 10:27 PM

Ian R Great stuff, Val Here's my attempt to enha... Nov 25 2013, 05:28 AM

titanicrivers From the T96 mission overview http://saturn.jpl.na... Nov 30 2013, 02:26 AM

titanicrivers The T96 flyby is already providing another ... Dec 3 2013, 01:32 AM

titanicrivers A closer look at Mackay Lacus show what appears to... Dec 7 2013, 04:13 AM

dilo Beautiful work, titancrivers! Looking to thes... Dec 7 2013, 05:48 AM

elakdawalla Radar will never achieve 100% coverage of Titan. C... Dec 7 2013, 05:05 PM

Explorer1 Yeah, don't expect 95% global coverage in Mage... Dec 8 2013, 02:48 AM

djellison QUOTE (Explorer1 @ Dec 7 2013, 06:48 PM) ... Dec 8 2013, 04:45 AM

dilo QUOTE (Explorer1 @ Dec 8 2013, 03:48 AM) ... Dec 8 2013, 06:55 AM

stevesliva QUOTE (Explorer1 @ Dec 7 2013, 10:48 PM) ... Dec 8 2013, 05:44 PM

Explorer1 Yeah, that's pretty much what I figured. There... Dec 8 2013, 05:20 AM

nprev It's just not gonna happen. Even if this were ... Dec 8 2013, 04:56 PM

0101Morpheus Uranus does strike me best destination to send Cas... Dec 9 2013, 05:16 PM

NickF The Acta Astronautica paper linked by Steve Silva ... Dec 9 2013, 06:12 PM

djellison Not unlikley to happen. IMPOSSIBLE. There is no w... Dec 9 2013, 06:39 PM

0101Morpheus Can we settle for a flyby of Iapetus then? Dec 9 2013, 06:51 PM

elakdawalla QUOTE (0101Morpheus @ Dec 9 2013, 10:51 A... Dec 12 2013, 09:10 PM

Explorer1 No; March 2015 is the last distant encounter, at a... Dec 9 2013, 08:08 PM

stevesliva QUOTE (Explorer1 @ Dec 9 2013, 03:08 PM) ... Dec 9 2013, 08:27 PM

Explorer1 Back on the topic of radar coverage, here's a ... Dec 12 2013, 07:58 PM

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