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Artist's rendition of Titan Flyby 60. Image credit: NASA/JPL/
Full image Cassini completed its 61st targeted flyby of Titan on Aug. 9, passing the moon at a distance of 970 kilometers (603 miles) above the surface at a speed of 6.0 kilometers per second (about 13,400 mph). While the spacecraft performed its planned data-gathering routines during the pass, the data were lost during transmission due to a temporary outage at the Goldstone Deep Space Network Facility. As unique, high-priority data from Saturn's equinox was planned to be taken soon after flyby, there was no redundant playback scheduled.

T60 was the ninth flyby in a series of 11 inbound encounters and the sixteenth Titan encounter in Cassini’s Equinox Mission.