Titan flyby

[Carl Tollander-2]

Cassini will be doing a close flyby (745 miles) of Titan on Tuesday.

The first images are expected at 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, Eastern time.

Webcasts at: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/webcast/cassini/
For those with NASA TV, NASA TV coverage begins
Oct. 26 at 6:30 p.m. (PST).

Resolution of photos
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA06116
should be between 1 to 1.2 km, possibly even as good as
several hundred meters at some places. This will be about
10 times as good as previously available.

Current site for prior pass Titan pix is at
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/target/Titan

Carl

[Dede Densmore-2]

Thanks,Carl, for the url's and reminder. Dede
On Oct 25, 2004, at 5:58 PM, Carl wrote:

> Cassini will be doing a close flyby (745 miles) of Titan on Tuesday.
>
> The first images are expected at 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, Eastern time.
>
> Webcasts at: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/webcast/cassini/
> For those with NASA TV, NASA TV coverage begins
> Oct. 26 at 6:30 p.m. (PST).
>
> Resolution of photos
> http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA06116
> should be between 1 to 1.2 km, possibly even as good as
> several hundred meters at some places. This will be about
> 10 times as good as previously available.
>
> Current site for prior pass Titan pix is at
> http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/target/Titan
>
> Carl
>
>
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[Jochen Fromm]

The European Space Agency ESA announced it on it's Mailing List, too:
"Today the NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini-Huygens spacecraft makes a fly-by
of Saturn's largest moon Titan - the closest ever performed."

See http://www.esa.int/esaSC/Pr_24_2004_s_en.html for more details.

Did you know that "the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft is one of the largest,
heaviest and most complex interplanetary spacecraft ever built" ?
http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/object/index.cfm?fobjectid=35026