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I'm so EXCITED!! WE've landed on Titan Successfully!!

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Originally posted by: warcrow
Originally posted by: b0mbrman
Welp, it's dark, and there's a whole lot of nothing. Here's some sounds of the nothing...
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This is the most distant landing on another body, so far. They believe the atmosphere to be much like primordial Earth. So they're hoping for glimpses and clues about Earth's past.

The probe did 4 planetary fly-bys to pickup speed. Venus-Earth-Venus-Jupiter. That *is* some crazy math!!

What I find amazing is that the solar system / universe is SO predictable that they can do things like that. They launched that sucker 8 years ago and were able to slingshot it around several planets and THEN insert it between two of saturns rings.!
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You can thank a couple of guys (among others) named Newton and Einstein for being able to do that. 🙂
 
Cool. It should be interesting to see the first images from Titan.


Things like this are very interesting and I'm surprised more people don't care. Oh well, I guess some people only care what happens here, and have no interest in what's going on in our universe....seems like a narrow view IMO.

To each his own...🙂
 
Originally posted by: Insane3D
Cool. It should be interesting to see the first images from Titan.


Things like this are very interesting and I'm surprised more people don't care. Oh well, I guess some people only care what happens here, and have no interest in what's going on in our universe....seems like a narrow view IMO.

To each his own...🙂
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Yea no kidding. Maybe we'll find more of this!
 
it's also a nice example of agencies working together

the probe (Huygens) that landed on Titan is an European project (ESA) and the orbiter (Cassini) is American (NASA)

free :beer: for the scientists and engineers who worked on the project

Descending through Titan was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and today?s achievement proves that our partnership with ESA was an excellent one,? says Alphonso Diaz, NASA Associate Administrator of Science.

The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperation between NASA, the European Space Agency and ASI, the Italian space agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, is managing the mission for NASA?s Office of Space Science, Washington. JPL designed, developed and assembled the Cassini orbiter.

?The teamwork in Europe and the USA, between scientists, industry and agencies has been extraordinary and has set the foundation for today?s enormous success,? concludes Jean-Jacques Dordain.
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Originally posted by: warcrow
Originally posted by: Insane3D
Cool. It should be interesting to see the first images from Titan.


Things like this are very interesting and I'm surprised more people don't care. Oh well, I guess some people only care what happens here, and have no interest in what's going on in our universe....seems like a narrow view IMO.

To each his own...🙂
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Yea no kidding. Maybe we'll find more of this!
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Ewwww.....PASS. Someone used implants that were about three sizes too big...😉

Pretty face though... 🙂
 
Originally posted by: warcrow
Originally posted by: Insane3D
Cool. It should be interesting to see the first images from Titan.


Things like this are very interesting and I'm surprised more people don't care. Oh well, I guess some people only care what happens here, and have no interest in what's going on in our universe....seems like a narrow view IMO.

To each his own...🙂
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Yea no kidding. Maybe we'll find more of this!
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nice, but how do liquid methane implants move when set into motion.😛
 
I remember the big opposition the environmentalists put up to the Cassini launch. They didn't want the radioisotope thermoelectric generators, which contain Plutonium, being launched
 
yea wasnt aware of this until I saw it on CNN couple days ago. This is truly amazing. I always wonder whats out there...beyond our solar system...beyond our galaxy...beyond our universe. I find anything to do with the universe fascinating. I guess this a reason why I was hooked to movies like Mission to Mars, Event Horizon, and games like Freelancer
 
Originally posted by: Citrix
me too.

but i wonder if NASA will censor the pictures and only release what they think the earthlings can handle.
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Do you mean the alien corpses? Yes, I'm sure they'll be censored.
 
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