Titan Remains an Enigma – Results of the Encounter / ESA TV Exchanges / 5 Nov 2004

The next transmission of the ESA TV Service will be:

Titan Remains an Enigma – Results of the Encounter

ESA TV Exchanges

5 November 09:15-09:30 GMT

Replay I: 5 November 16:00-16:15 GMT

Replay II: 6 November 14:00 -14:15 GMT

Please note that CET is GMT+1.

Background information on the transmission:

On the first of its 45 encounters with Titan, the Cassini-Huygens mission has observed Saturn’s giant moon at close quarters. The planet-sized moon looks increasingly like another world. As the data arrived scientists were elated but Titan still retains many of its secrets.

Although the surface displays highly contrasted areas, the scientists remain baffled, not least by the more complex organic molecules than anticipated detected in Titan’s atmosphere.

Cassini also observed the area in which the Huygens probe will be arriving on 14 January 2005, and its radar instrument peeked through thick cloud cover, mapping about 1% of the moon’s surface.

This TV Exchange provides a summary of the observations from most Cassini instruments, which have partly been animated and are completed by soundbites from scientists at the press briefings on 27 and 28 October. The programme also features a new 3-D graphics sequence of the Titan fly-by.

The programme includes an A-roll of seven minutes (split audio – English voiceover) plus a B-roll of six minutes with additional material/clean international sound.

The script is online under http://television.esa.int/photos/05112004.pdf

A preview Media Player file is online under http://real-esa.capcave.com/wmp/chflybre_03112004_wmpd.wmv

On 5 November, this TV Exchange is on Eutelsat W1 – see transmission details below. The replay on 6 November is on EbS.

More backgroud information can be found on: www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Cassini-Huygens

Transmission details 5 November (morning and afternoon):

Eutelsat W1 at 10 degrees east, Transponder B4 Middle 1 (SCPC), vertical, F=11079 MHz, SR=5.632 MS/sec, FEC=3/4

Transmission details 6 November:

EUTELSAT HOT BIRD at 13° East (DVB/MPEG-2), Horizontal, F=12,476 MHz (MCPC, Europe by Satellite), SR=27,500 MS/sec, FEC=3/4

For further information and a daily update of the transmission schedule, visit our website at http://television.esa.int. For all enquires, contact Claus Habfast, Tel +31 71 565 3838, Fax +31 71 565 6340, e-mail claus.habfast@esa.int.