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Rev 203 and T100 Mar24-Apr27 '14, 'High Noon' encounter with Titan's Atmosphere
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post Mar 28 2014, 12:50 PM
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A close encounter of the Titan kind will take place on April 7th. Cassini’s instruments will analyze Titan’s upper atmosphere at local noon on Titan in this very close approach. VIMS gets a chance to see a ‘stellar’ occultation of Antares by Titan as well ! See http://www.ciclops.org/view/7859/Rev203?js=1 for all the exciting details of this Rev.
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post Mar 29 2014, 07:36 PM
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An imaginary view of Titan and Antares from Cassini at 12:45 UTC just before the occultation of the red giant star on April 7th 2014. (The field of view is about 30 degrees and distance to Titan about 17.2K km). Images courtesy JPL’s Solar System Simulator http://space.jpl.nasa.gov/ and the Celestia http://sourceforge.net/projects/celestia/?source=directory program. The field of view of Cassini's cameras and VIMS is smaller however.
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Question: Will the WAC or NAC be able to image the occultation or just VIMS?
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- titanicrivers   Rev 203 and T100 Mar24-Apr27 '14   Mar 28 2014, 12:50 PM
- - titanicrivers   An imaginary view of Titan and Antares from Cassin...   Mar 29 2014, 07:36 PM
- - volcanopele   Looks like a combination of NAC and WAC images in ...   Mar 29 2014, 10:20 PM
- - titanicrivers   The T100 flyby description is up. http://saturn.jp...   Apr 3 2014, 06:49 AM
- - titanicrivers   Where abouts in Dilmun might the ISS closeup be ta...   Apr 7 2014, 03:50 PM
- - Val Klavans   Great images as always, titanicrivers! Here ...   Apr 12 2014, 05:00 AM
- - JohnVV   for any that do not yet know there is an updated ...   Apr 12 2014, 07:50 PM
- - titanicrivers   Absolutely beautiful imaging Val !!! ...   Apr 15 2014, 04:28 AM
- - titanicrivers   The apparent branching linear feature seems to end...   Apr 17 2014, 12:43 PM

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