Titan flyby
Oct. 26th, 2004 07:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
If all has gone well, Cassini is still examining Titan with radar, and will start playing back its collected data to Earth around 9:40 PM eastern.
Notice this part:
The Huygens probe doesn't get released on this Titan pass; I think it goes on the next one around.
Notice this part:
At closest approach, the spacecraft was passing through the tenuous outermost reaches of Titan's thick atmosphere, with the big antenna dish facing forward to provide some degree of protection. While doing so, it was directly sampling atoms and running them through an onboard mass spectrometer. Future flybys may be even closer, and besides doing pure science about the Titanian atmosphere, one purpose of this is to figure out how close Cassini can get safely.12:32 p.m.........................Turn INMS/HGA to Titan ram direction 12:38 p.m.........................Begin INMS atmospheric collection 12:44 p.m.........................Titan closest approach
The Huygens probe doesn't get released on this Titan pass; I think it goes on the next one around.