Cassini Probe Does Titan Flyby

EccentricAnomaly writes "Today, Cassini had its first close encounter with Titan around 8:30AM PDT. Data from the flyby will start coming down around 6:30PM PDT, and you can watch the pictures live on NASA TV. If you want higher resolution or just to stare at one picture for a while, the raw images will be put on the web right away, with pretty press images to follow the next day. And if you want to know about the observations planned for the flyby, you can read this PDF or watch this animation."

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4Gbit Solid State Recorders

[fembots]

From NASA's faq - "Cassini stores the gathered information on two Solid State Recorders (SSR) with a combined capacity of 4 gigabits, about the volume of a compact disk (500MB)."

It seems scientists are pretty confident that they can unload much data during Cassini's 9 hours downlink session.

Imagine if there were some downtimes when earth communication cannot be established for a couple of days...