PIA22484: Dust Storms on Titan<sup id="cite_ref-NASA-20180924_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NASA-20180924-1">[1]</a></sup><p>This compilation of images from nine Cassini flybys of Titan in 2009 and 2010 captures three instances when clear bright spots suddenly appeared in images taken by the spacecraft's Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer. The brightenings were visible only for a short period of time -- between 11 hours to five Earth weeks -- and cannot be seen in previous or subsequent images.
</p><p>The Cassini spacecraft ended its mission on Sept. 15, 2017.
</p><p>The Cassini mission is a cooperative project of NASA, ESA (the European Space Agency) and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado.
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<ol class="references"><li id="cite_note-NASA-20180924-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-NASA-20180924_1-0">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7243">Dust Storms on Titan Spotted for the First Time</a>. <i><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/NASA" title="NASA">NASA</a></i> (<span class="mw-formatted-date" title="2018-09-24">24 September 2018</span>). Retrieved on <span class="mw-formatted-date" title="2018-09-24">24 September 2018</span>.</span>
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