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   Message 795 of 1,217   
   Hud Nordin to Informer   
   Re: Titan surface image   
   19 Jan 05 02:24:19   
   
   XPost: sci.astro   
   From: hud@pobox.com   
      
   In article ,   
   Informer  wrote:   
   >Was this one image taken from the surface the ONLY one taken?  I thought the   
   >probe could do a 360 degree pan.   
      
   Once on the surface it was unable to pan. The imagers are fixed in place   
   on the craft. On descent it panned because the whole craft slowly spun.   
   Software timed and predicted the spin and grabbed images as the view   
   changed.   
      
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