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T-47: Huygens Landing Site on Titan Revisited
Cassini completed its latest flyby of Titan on Nov. 19, passing the moon at an altitude of 1,023 kilometers (636 miles). During the close pass, the Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer was able to image the region around the Huygens landing site at a resolution of less than a
kilometer per pixel. VIMS and several other instruments also observed atmospheric composition and structure, while Cassini's fields and particles instruments focused on Titan's interaction with Saturn's magnetosphere and the solar wind.
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This week: Catching Up
As with my last column, I'll try to get caught up with the torrent of science results from Cassini. It's a challenge staying on top of the press releases and engineering events, let alone writing about them here!
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+ Insider's Cassini
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Cassini Finds Mysterious New Aurora on Saturn
Saturn has its own unique brand of aurora that lights up the polar cap, unlike any other planetary aurora known in our solar system. This odd aurora revealed itself to one of the infrared instruments on NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
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+ More on Saturn
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Giant Cyclones at Saturn's Poles Create a Swirl of Mystery
New images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft reveal a giant cyclone at Saturn's north pole, and show that a similarly monstrous cyclone churning at Saturn's south pole is powered by Earth-like storm patterns.
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+ Related Animation
+ Video: Saturn's Cyclones
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Cassini Judges Promote 79 Essays to Final Round
After a series of marathon reading sessions, the contest's judges have concluded the first elimination round. The 110 students who worked on these essays, and their teachers, have been invited to participate in a series of teleconferences to discuss the results with Cassini scientists in early December. The winners will be announced in mid-December.
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Maxwell's That Ends Well
In the Maxwell gap within Saturn's C ring resides a narrow, eccentric ringlet of the same name. Astronomers are studying this ringlet to understand how it is maintained.
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+ More on Saturn's Rings
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Over the Limb
The Cassini spacecraft acquired this view of Enceladus just after the spacecraft passed within 25 kilometers (15 miles) of the surface on Oct. 9, 2008. Remarkably, only a handful of craters are visible in this view, indicating the relatively young age of this surface.
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+ More on Enceladus
+ More on the Oct. 9 Enceladus Flyby
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Titan
1023 km (635 mi)
Nov. 19, 2008 (SCET)
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Current Flyby in Progress
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