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Old February 11th 05, 02:31 PM posted to sci.astro,alt.sci.planetary,sci.geo.meteorology
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Default Radio Telescopes 'Save the Day,' Produce Data on Titan's Winds

In article ,
Doug Haxton wrote:
Will they be able to extract the missing pictures and other
data lost because of the Cassini receiver that wasn't turned on?
Or is the signal to noise ratio not good enough?


If I'm not mistaken, the only data that was initially lost was the
wind doppler information. All the other data was broadcast on two
different channels.


Alas, not so. Some of it was simply duplicated across the two channels,
but the camera in particular sent different images on channels A and B
rather than duplicating them.
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