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I've been waiting for this all year! :D Can't wait to see the photos and what its landed in...
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First picture has been released - It has a sea! You can see the coastline!
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Scientists are now piecing together the images, measurements and sounds that are being beamed back to Earth from the Cassini spacecraft, which had carried Huygens for the past seven years. These should give detailed information on the moon's weather and chemistry. They confirmed, however, that one of two channels, A and B, on the probe that records measurements had stopped working. But the most important channel - B - which was responsible for measuring Titan's surface chemistry, was functioning well. "We're going to be working very hard in the next hours and days. This data is data for posterity," said Professor David Southwood, Esa's director of science. The sounds of Titan's stormy atmosphere were recorded with an onboard microphone, and scientists hope they might even hear lightning strikes when they analyse the data. Scientists were relieved when the probe relayed a signal at about 1020 GMT on Friday to say it had negotiated Titan's atmosphere, and announced the mission was a "success". Cosmic enigma This told them the pilot parachute had pulled off the probe's rear cover, allowing its antenna to start transmitting. The European-built probe entered Titan's atmosphere at an altitude of 1,270km (789 miles) at about 1000 GMT. Once friction slowed the probe's descent to about Mach 1.5, it deployed the first of three parachutes, pulling off the rear cover that protected Huygens from the fierce heat as it entered the atmosphere. Dominated by nitrogen, methane and other organic (carbon-based) molecules, conditions on Titan are believed to resemble those on Earth 4.6 billion years ago. As such, it may tell scientists more about the kind of chemical reactions that set the scene for the emergence of life on Earth. The Cassini spacecraft arrived at Saturn in July 2004. It released Huygens towards Titan on 25 December. Story from BBC NEWS: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/h...ch/4175099.stm Published: 2005/01/14 21:16:03 GMT © BBC MMV</font>[/QUOTE]And the first picture taken at an altitude of 16km, showing erosion channels leading down to the shoreline of a sea: http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/image...tan203grab.jpg |
They appear to have 3 images up this far at ESA.
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ESA now has audio too. I think this may be the first time we hear sounds from another world. [img]smile.gif[/img]
[ 01-16-2005, 05:49 AM: Message edited by: Dreamer128 ] |
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