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hi and welcome to NASA's Jet Propulsion

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Laboratory in Pasadena California my

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name is Todd barber lead propulsion

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engineer on the Cassini mission to

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Saturn here with the latest news from

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the range planet as Cassini heads into

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the last few months of its four-year

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prime mission the spacecraft continues

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its campaign to crank up orbital

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inclination using a slew of clothes

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tight and flybys part of this delicate

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orbital ballet required Cassini's

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largest rocket firing in nearly three

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and a half years this burn clocked out

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successfully on February fifth exactly

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one month after our most recent Titan

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flyby this low altitude titan paths

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focused largely on infrared temperature

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mapping of the surface and atmosphere

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the search for stratospheric oxygen

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compounds and high-resolution spectral

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mapping around the Huygens landing site

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the ultraviolet camera studied titan's

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atmosphere while the visible light

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camera literally worked day and night

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with dayside mapping and nighttime

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searches for Titan Aurora and lightning

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the spacecraft has also been busy with

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other observations including wonderful

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radio science all three radio frequency

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bands were used to probe the gamut of

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Saturn's ring features scientists can

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determine fine ring particle structure

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by the blocking or attenuation of

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Cassini's downlink radio signal the

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radio science team spotted orderly lines

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of evenly spaced icy boulders within the

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Rings yet another surprising result from

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Saturn next up for Cassini is another

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Titan fly by on February 22nd the team

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is eagerly anticipating it since it will

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include radar imagery of the Huygens

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landing site our ultraviolet camera will

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also investigate titan's atmosphere

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during an outbound stellar occultation

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with your latest news from Cassini and