Huygens

[zamphir66]

Well the Huygens probe made it safely to the surface of Titan. This is the furthest landing of a man-made object ever: 700 million miles! :omg:

The very first picture came in about 30 minutes ago, it showed what appear to be drainiage channels flowing towards a dark region, possibly some kind of sea or ocean.

I, or someone else, will post stuff as it becomes available.

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/home/

[Crow T. Robot]

awesome!

[ZombieMan]

Thats just too cool! I read about this earlier, and I can't wait to see more pics.

[Diablo]

Links not working :(

[ip_guru]

Great day for space exploration, science, and the furthering of our understanding of space! This is very cool!

All the space sites are slammed with traffic now, so links are slow and might show up better later....

http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/huygens_images_050114.html

http://www.physorg.com/newman/gfx/news/landing03_L2.jpg

http://www.physorg.com/newman/gfx/news/landing01_L2.jpg

[zamphir66]

IP you probably know more about this stuff than me: the pictures we're getting right now are not true color, am I right? They have to do some processing and filtering before we see what this stuff would look like with our eyes. Of course a trichromatic digital camera can never get it exactly right, they can come pretty close.

Of course I could be wrong and this is as clean as the pictures will get. Help?

[ip_guru]

IP you probably know more about this stuff than me: the pictures we're getting right now are not true color, am I right? They have to do some processing and filtering before we see what this stuff would look like with our eyes. Of course a trichromatic digital camera can never get it exactly right, they can come pretty close.

Of course I could be wrong and this is as clean as the pictures will get. Help?

The pics will most likely get clearer. I don't know what cameras they have on this mission. Normally, you get the low res stuff first, in black and white (greyscale), then the higher res stuff.

In this case, that might be it though. They don't expect the craft to survive all that long, and they may have chosen volume of pics over resolution of pics. By tomorrow, we'll know. It won't take longer than that ever for high res pic....

[GreenvilleTexan]

This is so awesome. Live video from Titan? I bet 10 to one once the color images come back its going to look like the Planet Vulcan.