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Huygens heads to Titan
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Me too 
This is one of the most exciting things inspace explorationin quite some time now(even since they made Pathfinder images avaliable online in 1997 or so and i downloaded them allon my stupid slow analog modem 
). I wonder if there is water and/or life on Titan (they should send one of those to Europe too).
This is one of the most exciting things inspace explorationin quite some time now(even since they made Pathfinder images avaliable online in 1997 or so and i downloaded them allon my stupid slow analog modem ). I wonder if there is water and/or life on Titan (they should send one of those to Europe too).
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It's down and apparently alive. Some first pictures are back.
Titan doesn't look like a very nice place to live. We've seen Mars now too. It's also not a very pleasant-looking place. We've even been to the moon and found it a bit uncomfortable.
Hopefully, people will look at all of this and realize what a great and unique home we've been blessed with. We need to all work to live together here because we haven't yet found a good alternative.
Titan doesn't look like a very nice place to live. We've seen Mars now too. It's also not a very pleasant-looking place. We've even been to the moon and found it a bit uncomfortable.
Hopefully, people will look at all of this and realize what a great and unique home we've been blessed with. We need to all work to live together here because we haven't yet found a good alternative.
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I just got back from working all day and have a lot of catching up to do on the space web sites. I spent the day trying, mostly unsuccessfully, to communicate between a system in my lab and some devices two floors above me. The ladies and gents of the ESA just carried out what looks to be a successful mission on another planet's moon. They got some images, but hopefully, good data as well. That desire to learn everything that we can about the universe that we live in is part of what makes us human. Hats off to these folks for a job well done!!
Ok, I'm off to do some reading...
Ok, I'm off to do some reading...
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http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/index.cfm
The photos from Titan published so far are up on the JPL site above.
It is pretty exciting stuff, but then again so is the upcoming collision of the iceberg with the ice shelf.
I haven't seen any pics of the Sirens yet.
The photos from Titan published so far are up on the JPL site above.
It is pretty exciting stuff, but then again so is the upcoming collision of the iceberg with the ice shelf.
I haven't seen any pics of the Sirens yet.
Can't wait for color data to be downloaded from Cassini for those other images They said the probe operated for 3+ more minutes after Titan tuch-down. A person who has tried to take a photo (focus their camera lens, rewind film, use flash, use computer or comm gear) at under -20-30 degrees C (let alone ~-180 deg C) knows that damn machinery that works just fine at "normal" tenperatures won't do ANYTHING at low temperatures, cracking or shattering into little bits and pieces aside.
I suppose Russian Zorki cameras (mom still has hers somewhere in the closet ) were built that way for a reason ... just like russian cars (a friend of mine used to own one of those Lada cars, with winch hole at the front for "backup starter" setup, which refused to start in our moderate climate summer temperatures but the colder it got in the winder the easier it was to start that damn thing ), i wonder how ESA and NASA did it with Huygens equipment.
They said the probe operated for 3+ more minutes after Titan tuch-down. A person who has tried to take a photo (focus their camera lens, rewind film, use flash, use computer or comm gear) at under -20-30 degrees C (let alone ~-180 deg C) knows that damn machinery that works just fine at "normal" tenperatures won't do ANYTHING at low temperatures, cracking or shattering into little bits and pieces aside. I suppose Russian Zorki cameras (mom still has hers somewhere in the closet
) were built that way for a reason ... just like russian cars (a friend of mine used to own one of those Lada cars, with winch hole at the front for "backup starter" setup, which refused to start in our moderate climate summer temperatures but the colder it got in the winder the easier it was to start that damn thing ), i wonder how ESA and NASA did it with Huygens equipment.