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[yale]

Yes, the written introduction to the audio stream is misleading. As the audio reports, Boris Smed discovered the screw-up in February of 2000.

yale

Some background:

http://www.planetary.org/html/news/articlearchive/headlines/2001/casshuygfix.html

[remcook]

and yes...more titan

http://www.astrobio.net/news/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1413&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

[Dingo1]

Concidering the amount of data we recieved from Cassini, it will be a while before it is all analyised.  I do know the geologoy department at the University of Delaware is pouring over it with as are other presigious institutions who are partnered with the ESA and NASA.  Give them time to understand it all.  We recieved 3 times the amount of data we were planning on

[remcook]

http://www.planetary.org/news/2005/cassini_images_rhea_mimas_enceladus_0201.html

about the icy moons

[remcook]

status report:
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/news/sig-event-details.cfm?newsID=537

[remcook]

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA07009.jpg
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA07365.jpg

some amawing radar images from Titan!

and more beautiful images from enceladus...

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/image-details.cfm?imageID=1373

[remcook]

Moons and rings, moons and moons...

very cool

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/raw-images-details.cfm?feiImageID=32976
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/raw-images-details.cfm?feiImageID=32866
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/raw-images-details.cfm?feiImageID=32817
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/raw-images-details.cfm?feiImageID=32787
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/raw-images-details.cfm?feiImageID=32811




please check them out!

[remcook]

so unreal...

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS08/N00028846.jpg

[Astronuc]

Those are stunning images.

[remcook]

huygens update:
http://www.planetary.org/news/2005/titan_lpsc_0819.html

and there's been two enceladus flybys with stunning pictures and the indication of an atmosphere by the MAG instrument

[Orstio]

I like the animation of Mimas occulting Janus

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[alokmohan]

What is latest on life in titan?

[yale]

There is no evidence of any life, past or present, on Titan.

MUCH too cold.

Always was and always will be that way? Maybe not:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/life/looking/titan.shtml

[Astronuc]

Cassini Spacecraft Spies New Saturn Moon

PASADENA, Calif. - The international Cassini spacecraft has spied a tiny new moon hidden in a gap in Saturn's outer ring, scientists said.

The moon was spotted earlier this month in the center of the Keeler gap, making waves in the gap edges as it orbits. Tentatively called S/2005 S1, the moon measures four miles across and is about 85,000 miles from the center of Saturn.

More observations are needed to determine the shape of the moon's orbit, but preliminary findings show it is in the middle of the gap, Joseph Spitale, a planetary scientist at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo., said Tuesday.

S/2005 S1 is the second moon known to exist within Saturn's shimmering rings. The other is Pan, which orbits in the Encke gap. All of Saturn's other known moons are outside the main ring system.

by AP for Yahoo

[remcook]

here are some CIRS results:

http://www.spaceflightnow.com/cassini/050512titan.html

Nothing I worked on directly (the paper was a bit too soon for me to contribute much, since I was still getting used to everything), but a postdoc here (N. Teanby) did a lot of work for it.