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| Titan Flyby - 22 February 2007 |
| On Thursday, 22 February 2007, Cassini returns to Titan for its twenty-sixth targeted encounter (T25). The highest inclination of the current mission phase (180 Degree Transfer phase) has been reached, with the inclination now starting to be lowered again. This is the highest Cassini will be until spring of 2008, when the mission will be in the High Inclination phase. |
| Date: 21 Feb 2007 |
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| Titan Flyby - 29 January 2007 |
| Just 16 days after Titan-23, Cassini returns to Titan for its twenty-fifth targeted encounter. The closest approach to Titan occurs on Monday, 29 January, at 07:15:55 UT at an altitude of 2631 kilometres above the surface and at a speed of 5.8 kilometres per second. The latitude at closest approach is 33° N and the encounter occurs on orbit number 38. |
| Date: 26 Jan 2007 |
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| Titan Flyby - 13 January 2007 |
| Sixteen days after its last flyby of Titan, Cassini returns for its twenty-fourth targeted encounter, Titan-23. The closest approach to Titan occurs on Saturday, 13 January, 08:38:31 UTC at an altitude of 1000 kilometres above the surface and at a speed of 6.0 kilometres per second. The latitude at closest approach is 31° N (over an area known as Aaru), and the encounter occurs on orbit number 37. |
| Date: 11 Jan 2007 |
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| Cassini finds Northern Lakes on Titan |
| Newly released results obtained by Cassini and published in Nature, provide the strongest evidence yet for the existence of hydrocarbon lakes on Titan. |
| Date: 05 Jan 2007 |
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| Titan Flyby - 28 December 2006 |
| Just 16 days after Titan-21, Cassini returns to Titan for its twenty-third targeted encounter. During this last flyby of the year, Titan's gravity field will be measured by Cassini's radio science instruments in search for a potential subsurface ocean. The closest approach to Titan occurs on Thursday, 28 December, at 10:05:22 UTC at an altitude of 1300 kilometres above the surface and at a speed of 5.9 kilometres per second. The latitude at closest approach is 40.2° N and the encounter occurs on orbit number 36. |
| Date: 27 Dec 2006 |
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| Massive Mountains on Titan |
| Observations made during the recent flyby of Titan, on 25 October 2006, by the Cassini spacecraft, have revealed a massive mountain range on Saturn's largest moon. The mountains stand 1.5 km tall and are the highest ever seen on Titan. |
| Date: 13 Dec 2006 |
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| Titan Flyby - 12 December 2006 |
| After 48 days Cassini returns to Titan for its twenty-second targeted encounter, Titan-21. The closest approach to Titan occurs on Tuesday, 12 December at 11:41:31 UT, at an altitude of 1000 km above the surface and at a speed of 5.9 kilometres per second. The latitude at closest approach is 43.9° N (over the uncharted area known only as 'Belet') and the encounter occurs on orbit number 35. |
| Date: 07 Dec 2006 |
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| South Polar Storms on Saturn |
| The instruments on board the Cassini spacecraft have observed an enormous storm raging in the atmosphere above Saturn's south pole. This type and scale of storm has never before been seen on another planet. |
| Date: 14 Nov 2006 |
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| Titan Flyby - 25 October 2006 |
| Only 16 days after Titan-19, Cassini returns to Titan for its twenty-first targeted encounter. The closest approach to Titan occurs on Wednesday, 25 October 2006, at 15:58:07 UT at an altitude of 1030 kilometres above the surface and at a speed of 5.99 kilometres per second. The latitude at closest approach is 7.5° and the encounter occurs on orbit number 31. |
| Date: 24 Oct 2006 |
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| Titan Flyby - 9 October 2006 |
| Just 16 days after Titan-18, Cassini returns to Titan for its twentieth targeted encounter. The closest approach to Titan occurs on Monday, 9 October, at 00:23:27 UT at an altitude of 980 kilometers above the surface and at a speed of 6.0 kilometers per second. The latitude at closest approach is 60.7° N and the encounter occurs on orbit number 30. |
| Date: 09 Oct 2006 |
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| Huygens Probe Descent Multilingual CDROM |
| A multilingual version of the Huygens Descent movies is now available, thanks to a collaboration between Europlanet and the ESA Communication office. Currently the CDROM contains six languages: English, French, German, Greek, Polish, Finnish. |
| Date: 26 Sep 2006 |
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| Titan Flyby - 23 September 2006 |
| Only 16 days after Titan-17, Cassini returns to Titan for its nineteenth targeted encounter. The closest approach to Titan occurs on Saturday, 23 September, at 18:59 UT at an altitude of 960 kilometres above the surface and at a speed of 5.8 kilometres per second. The latitude at closest approach is 71°, and the encounter occurs on orbit number 29. |
| Date: 22 Sep 2006 |
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| Titan Flyby - 7 September 2006 |
| Nearly 47 days after Titan-16, Cassini returns to Titan for its eighteenth targeted encounter. The closest approach to Titan occurs on Saturday, 7 September, at 20:16 UT at an altitude of 1000 kilometers above the surface and at a speed of 6.0 kilometers per second. The latitude at closest approach is 23° N (near the equator), and the encounter occurs on orbit number 28. |
| Date: 07 Sep 2006 |
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| Huygens Scientific Archive Data Set Released |
| ESA's Huygens probe successfully descended through the atmosphere of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, and safely landed on its surface on 14 January 2005. An extraordinary new world has been unveiled. The unique data obtained by the six Huygens experiments are now being archived in the ESA planetary Science Archive (PSA). A copy of the archived data set is also available in the NASA Planetary Data System (PDS). |
| Date: 02 Aug 2006 |
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| Search for Lakes on Titan |
| Results from two recent flybys of Titan, by the Cassini spacecraft, have added to the evidence suggesting that hydrocarbon lakes exist on its surface. |
| Date: 25 Jul 2006 |
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| Titan Flyby - 22 July 2006 |
| Only 20 days after Titan-15, Cassini returns to Titan for its seventeenth targeted encounter, Titan-16. The closest approach to Titan occurs on Saturday, 22 July, at 00:25 UT at an altitude of 950 kilometres above the surface and at a speed of 5.8 kilometres per second. The latitude at closest approach is 85° (near polar) and the encounter occurs on orbit number 26. |
| Date: 19 Jul 2006 |
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| Titan Flyby - 2 July 2006 |
| Forty three days after Titan-14, Cassini returns to Titan for its sixteenth targeted encounter (Titan-15). The closest approach to the moon occurs on Sunday, 2 July at 09:21 UT at an altitude of 1906 km above the surface and at a speed of 5.8 kilometres per second. The latitude at closest approach is -0.4° (near equatorial) and the encounter occurs on orbit number 25. |
| Date: 29 Jun 2006 |
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| Titan Flyby - May 2006 |
| Only 21 days after Titan-13, Cassini returns to Titan for its fifteenth targeted encounter. The closest approach to Titan occurs on Saturday, 20 May at 12:18 UTC at an altitude of 1879 km above the surface and at a speed of 5.8 kilometres per second. The latitude at closest approach is 0.4° (near equatorial) and the encounter occurs on orbit number 24. |
| Date: 19 May 2006 |
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| Titan Flyby - April 2006 |
| Forty-two days after T12, Cassini returns to Titan for the fourteenth targeted flyby of Titan on Sunday, 30 April 2006 at 20:58:15 UTC. Cassini's closest approach to Saturn's largest satellite is at an altitude of 1855 kilometres above the surface at a speed of 6.0 kilometres per second. |
| Date: 29 Apr 2006 |
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| Titan Flyby - March 2006 |
| Only 19 days after Titan-11, Cassini returns to Titan for its thirteenth targeted encounter. The closest approach to Titan occurs on Sunday, 19 March, at 00:06 UT at an altitude of 1951 km above the surface and at a speed of 5.8 kilometres per second. The latitude at closest approach is 0° (equator) and the encounter occurs on orbit number 22. |
| Date: 17 Mar 2006 |
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