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hello and welcome to NASA's Jet

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Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena

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California I'm Jan Berkeley one of the

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sequence team lead engineers on Cassini

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here to share the latest news from

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saturn in our most exciting news

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instruments on the spacecraft that found

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evidence of seas and the high northern

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latitudes of Titan here's a movie that

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shows the area that it was seized

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hundreds of miles across and many

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smaller lakes that vary from several

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miles to tens of miles wide Cassini's

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last flyby of Titan was on March 10 2007

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at an altitude of 600 miles there were

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several objectives to this flyby higher

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resolution images of the area where the

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seas were found was successful this area

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is just north of the equator and west of

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the bright area known as Xanadu also

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seen by both radar and imaging

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instruments in previous flybys in

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addition Titan weather studies were

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conducted battling temperatures to

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determine seasonal changes Maya turn

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cloud motion and wind speeds scientists

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are still processing this data so stay

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tuned we will return to tighten on mar

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26th this time at an altitude of 620

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miles this time the flyby will include

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more temperature and global mapping and

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spectral imaging in the ultraviolet and

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infrared Regents the area of season legs

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will be mapped yet again but at a lower

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resolution the spacecraft will also pass

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behind Titan for approximately 35

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minutes this is called an occultation

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calamity data cannot be received from

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the spacecraft at that time what

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information can still be transmitted a

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unique experiment will take place where

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the spacecraft will be oriented

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precisely the send a signal to bounce

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off the atmosphere of Titan and be

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received at earth state of the signal

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tells us information about the surface

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region targeted this is the third time

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the experiment will be attempted by

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Cassini from Pasadena California this is

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Jan Berkeley with nasa's jet propulsion