[Prospero]

It gets worse. One of the Italian scientists does not expect the images to improve, just their correlation with the data. They want to emphasize the, admittedly, remarkable unveiling of a hydrocarbon sea and cycle, which might be as easily seen in the next radar fly-by of Cassini in February and beyond, but no one wants to admit that the European side of Cassini mostly "screwed the pooch."

[Fitzcarraldo]

I read that the image data was lossy compressed by hardware on Huygens between a factor of 3:1 and 8:1. In addition, the data were reduced from 12 to 8 bits/pixel.

There is always a battle on a spacecraft for bits and you could say that the imager got the short of the stick, IMHO. I'm sure they wish they had more bandwidth.

One wonders how much bandwidth that comparatively useless record of the wind blowing by Huygens took.