Huygens

[Gibsons]

Supposedly first data will come in around 10:00 est, first pictures later today. I think I'm more excited about this that I was the Mars lander... Titan is more strange and exotic, we don't know if it will land on liquid or solid or something in between. Heck, it even has a microphone to listen for thunder.

Nasa

ESA

There's also a webcast you can link to from CNN.com


edit/update from cnn:

The first pictures of Titan's surface will be released by ESA about 2:45 ET.

 

[TuxDave]

Nice... I can't wait to see what happens.

 

[Paratus]

Originally posted by: Gibsons
Supposedly first data will come in around 10:00 est, first pictures later today. I think I'm more excited about this that I was the Mars lander... Titan is more strange and exotic, we don't know if it will land on liquid or solid or something in between. Heck, it even has a microphone to listen for thunder.

Nasa

ESA

There's also a webcast you can link to from CNN.com

:thumbsup:

 

[silverpig]

Sweet. Pictures just coming in between classes for me

<---- astrophysics major

 

[montag451]

Battery is only supposed to hold out for a max of 7 hours.

Giving out approx. 8KB/sec

Max data is about 200MB!!!!!!!!!

 

[TuxDave]

Dammit... does this probe have wheels by any chance? If so... DRIVE TO THE SHORELINE!!!! I wanna see the water!

 

[Looney]

Originally posted by: TuxDave
Dammit... does this probe have wheels by any chance? If so... DRIVE TO THE SHORELINE!!!! I wanna see the water!

No, it doesn't. It was only supposed to survive for a few mins only!

 

[TuxDave]

Originally posted by: Hardcore

Originally posted by: TuxDave
Dammit... does this probe have wheels by any chance? If so... DRIVE TO THE SHORELINE!!!! I wanna see the water!

No, it doesn't. It was only supposed to survive for a few mins only!

 

[aceofspades230]

Thats some awsome data!! Anyone know of a next generation mission that would send a robotic probe for more detailed analysis?? I've heard of sending rovers, boats and even helicopters (Dense atmosphere provides execellent conditions for flying) In the meantime I'll search NASA's site.

(The article about Titan probes was in an old Discover.)

 

[bobsmith1492]

When was that thing launched? Seems like it must be fairly old technology.

 

[aceofspades230]

sometime in '97

 

[DrPizza]

cool pics!

 

[rezinn]

Does anyone else get angry seeing artists renditions rather than real images? Or rather, dissapointed.

 

[Gibsons]

So why is it orange? something to do with filtering (or refraction?) of the sun through the methane atmosphere?

 

[Mark R]

Hopefully, in a few months we might get some of the rest of the images. Of the 700 taken, 350 were lost because operators forgot to switch on one of the two radio receivers on the cassini mothership.

Fortunately, earthbound radio-telescope technology has advanced sufficiently that the signals from the Huygens lander probe were detected and recorded on earth. However, it'll likely take weeks or months of processing to clean the signals up enough to get the data.

 

[SagaLore]

So they sent a probe all that way just to have it remain stationary and die within a short time.