CASSINI TITAN RADAR MAPPER

Cassini Titan Radar Mapper is a multimode radar instrument designed to probe the optically inaccessible surface of Titan, Saturn's largest moon. The instrument is to be included in the payload of the Cassini Saturn Mission. The spacecraft is scheduled for launch in 1995 and is expected to arrive at Saturn and be inserted in orbit around Saturn in late 2003. The individual modes of Cassini Radar Mapper will allow surface imaging at few hundred meters resolution, and topographic mapping. The Mapper will be in operation during close flybys of Titan and will map approximately 30% of Titan's surface in the course of the nominal mission.