Huygens Lands on Titan

[UED77]

The moment we have been all waiting for (at least some geeks and nerds, like myself):

Huygens has landed a day ago, but now it has sent us a color picture and a 360° Panorama!

Check out the European Space Agency article (http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Cassini-Huygens/SEMC8Q71Y3E_1.html)!

For those who are too lazy to read the accompanying text and captions, here are just the images:

http://esamultimedia.esa.int/images/cassini_huygens/huygens_land/Picture2.jpg

http://esamultimedia.esa.int/images/cassini_huygens/huygens_land/Picture6.png

http://esamultimedia.esa.int/images/cassini_huygens/huygens_land/Picture4.jpg

http://esamultimedia.esa.int/images/cassini_huygens/huygens_land/Picture7.png


http://esamultimedia.esa.int/images/cassini_huygens/huygens_land/Picture3.jpg


UED77

[Zeltaris]

Finally! Yay!
Why didn't I find out about this for myself? Ah, right... I'm lazy :P

Thanks for the link, UED.

btw, If anywant wants to contact me, I'll be busy drooling over my keyboard, so don't bother :P

[Jedi_Templar]

This is huge. This is equivalent to the moon landings in 1969. Well, maybe Viking on Mars. Too bad it's not getting more press.

[LordAhriman]

Wait... that's water?

[Dezzick]

Yay! at last!

[Jedi_Templar]

Wait... that's water?
At -200 degrees Celsius, no. Ice, at most. Any ocean/river is probably liquid methane or something like that.

[Battlecruiser]

Any chance of life?

[Jedi_Templar]

Any chance of life?
Probably not. However, many scientists think that Titan might be what Earth was like 4 billion years ago.

[Mattimeo]

Wow, I remember taping this space show on the learning channel called Solar Empire about 9 years ago. They talked about the Cassini mission, cool stuff. I remember some kid brought in an article when they launched the Cassini saying how the plutonium could kill everyone on earth. Sheesh, we can't let a few hippies stop the progress of science now can we? Now we've got grainy picures of some rock a billion miles away! Take that Hippie McHipperson!

~Don't Panic

[UED77]

The ocean was thought to be liquid methane or ethane, but it appears that Huygens landed in the dark region. Further analyzation of the data will hopefully reveal what the light and dark regions are.

UED77

[Thereisnocowlevel]

I read about this in Wikipedia while I was doing my super-compressed Biology project (two weeks worth in a single night).

[Spartan-II]

Wow, I was looking at the pictures in his post and scrolled down a little far, I saw his sig and was like "O_O I DIDN'T KNOW TITAN HAD WATER AND A... Oh.. Nvm..

[peace_machine]

Wow, I was looking at the pictures in his post and scrolled down a little far, I saw his sig and was like "O_O I DIDN'T KNOW TITAN HAD WATER AND A... Oh.. Nvm..
same, damn your sig UED. I was all ready to book my holiday untill I realised that was your sig >.<

[Basan]

This is huge. This is equivalent to the moon landings in 1969. Well, maybe Viking on Mars. Too bad it's not getting more press.

Unfortunetly most meaning (read cultural and/or scientific) events don't get the coverage they should in the 1st place. :(
But at least we get the overexcedding coverage of the Asia disaster... and it only been what? A couple of weeks now? Exploring sensationalism is replacing most current journalism nowadays it seems... cover it yeah, but not 'till exhaustion (amateur videos n' such)! *Sigh*

Interesting article, btw. Nice find, UED. :tup:

[UED77]

Heh, after seeing several of you get a little over-excited upon seeing the Big Sur coast in my sig and thinking that it was a photo from Titan, I changed my sig so that it's really a photo from Titan :)

UED77

[singo]

whoo, titan!, now we need to start REAL space exploration

robots are not the best way to get funding for exploration, we need to send humans somewhere for the media

media coverage = money, sad but true, until it happens the exploita....opps, exploration of space will be on the back burner

[Valjean]

we need to send humans somewhere for-
/me interupts *

MARS!! >_<