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Latest Titan pictures now available.
ESA ^ | 1-15-05 | cabojoe

Posted on 01/15/2005 3:38:33 AM PST by cabojoe

This composite was produced from images returned yesterday, 14 January 2005, by ESA's Huygens probe during its successful descent to land on Titan. It shows a full 360-degree view around Huygens.

(Excerpt) Read more at esa.int ...


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KEYWORDS: cassini; huygens; titan
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To: yoe; cabojoe

The word awesome with all its connotations comes to mind when looking at all the pictures.

Ditto that, as in 'totally'.

Gotta' show these to my youngest. He did a Powerpoint presentation (last week) of the Voyager flyby of Saturn for a school assignment. I sure wish these photos had been available to him. Breathtaking stuff.

21 posted on 01/15/2005 4:35:20 AM PST by elli1
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To: cabojoe

When you can't keep a job because you have nothing to offer an employer
you have lots of time on your hands as exhibited here.

22 posted on 01/15/2005 4:40:18 AM PST by chainsaw (("We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." - H. Clinton))
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To: elli1

I think the best shots are still to come. ESA scientists are really being pushed to get pictures out there right now. In time we should see real clean pictures and in color.


23 posted on 01/15/2005 4:42:38 AM PST by cabojoe
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To: cabojoe
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AP
This composite was produced from images returned Friday, Jan. 14, 2005, by ESA's Huygens probe during its successful descent to land on Titan. It shows the boundary between the lighter-coloured uplifted terrain, marked with what appear to be drainage channels, and darker lower areas. These images were taken from an altitude of about 8 kilometres and a resolution of about 20 metres per pixel. (AP Photo/ESA/NASA (news - web sites)/University of Arizona)

24 posted on 01/15/2005 4:44:34 AM PST by ChadGore (VISUALIZE 62,019,003 Bush fans.)
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To: cabojoe

Good Lord! These photos could be black and whites of any number of port cities here on Earth where a river also meets the ocean.


25 posted on 01/15/2005 4:47:12 AM PST by Types_with_Fist (I'm on FReep so often that when I read an article at another site I scroll down for the comments.)
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To: ChadGore

That photo is amazing. Looks like a Great Wall is built into the hillside.


26 posted on 01/15/2005 4:58:32 AM PST by NautiNurse (Osama bin Laden has more tapes than Steely Dan)
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To: ProudVet77
They only go 5kts or so on a good day.

Not being a sailor, but a participating guest on several occasions, it seems the objective is to get as much out of the wind as you can - and that can be very satisfying. We take our pleasures when we can - and speed is "relative" - age forces many adjustments and, for some of us, really noticeably is that associated with speed.

May you have a good wind on calm seas (is that possible?).

27 posted on 01/15/2005 5:04:37 AM PST by RAY (They that do right are all heroes!)
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To: RAY
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AFP
One of the first images returned by the European Space Agency's (ESA) Huygen's probe on Titan. ESA scientists were due to give their analysis of the first pictures of Saturn's moon Titan -- hours after the Huygens spacecraft landed on its surface.(AFP/ESA)

28 posted on 01/15/2005 5:11:17 AM PST by ChadGore (VISUALIZE 62,019,003 Bush fans.)
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To: NautiNurse
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AP
This composite was produced from images returned Friday January 14, 2005, by ESA's Huygens probe during its successful descent to land on Titan. It shows a full 360-degree view around Huygens. The left-hand side, behind Huygens, shows a boundary between light and dark areas. The white streaks seen near this boundary could be ground 'fog', as they were not immediately visible from higher altitudes.These images were taken from an altitude of about 8 kilometres and a resolution of about 20 metres per pixel. (AP Photo/ESA/NASA (news - web sites)/University of Arizona)

29 posted on 01/15/2005 5:12:17 AM PST by ChadGore (VISUALIZE 62,019,003 Bush fans.)
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To: RAY
Thank you and very possible, during the winter I race in Boston harbor, very calm waters. Summer racing off of Marblehead is much rougher but it's great!
Getting the most out of the wind is a major challenge. But even after that is learned, we are doing the same as 10 other racers are doing, so it becomes a chess match with many other skippers. It is a fascinating sport, and not nearly as expensive as golf!
30 posted on 01/15/2005 5:12:37 AM PST by ProudVet77 (If it's Saturday, I'm sailing!)
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31 posted on 01/15/2005 5:16:37 AM PST by ChadGore (VISUALIZE 62,019,003 Bush fans.)
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To: ChadGore

Notice the rounded quality of the rocks in this photo. Looks like river stone you would find in a stream bed.


32 posted on 01/15/2005 5:20:22 AM PST by Godebert
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To: ChadGore

33 posted on 01/15/2005 5:20:50 AM PST by Diogenesis (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: ProudVet77

I LOVE it!

That link went to my Son, who is a Monty Python fan. During his wedding recessional we pulled out halves of cocoanuts and were banging them together.....


34 posted on 01/15/2005 5:29:56 AM PST by gortklattu (As the preacher in Blazing Saddles said "You're on your own.")
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To: Trteamer

Heh! I just got home from work. Only thing I'll be hunting is sheep in about ten minutes.


35 posted on 01/15/2005 5:33:35 AM PST by RandallFlagg (Roll your own cigarettes! You'll save bucks and smoke less!(Magnetic bumper stickers-click my name))
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To: cabojoe
Latest Titan pictures now available.


36 posted on 01/15/2005 5:38:19 AM PST by Ichneumon
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To: ChadGore

Speeding through Titan's haze
This recording is a laboratory reconstruction of the sounds heard by Huygens' microphones.
Several sound samples, taken at different times during the descent,
are here combined together and give a realistic reproduction
of what a traveller on board Huygens would have heard during one minute of the descent through Titan's atmosphere.

37 posted on 01/15/2005 5:41:41 AM PST by Diogenesis (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: chainsaw

I had almost forgotten these fruitloops. The plutonium sign reminded me, they didn't want us to send plutonium, used as power source, to the gas giant planets just in case life had evolved there and might be harmed. Totally overlooked that anything evolved in that ecology would probably think of plutonium nuggets the way we do candy bars and wish we hadn't made them so hard to unwrap.


38 posted on 01/15/2005 5:42:04 AM PST by barkeep
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To: Diogenesis
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CP
Closeup of the surface. (NASA (news - web sites), the European Space Agency)

39 posted on 01/15/2005 5:53:29 AM PST by ChadGore (VISUALIZE 62,019,003 Bush fans.)
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To: barkeep
The plutonium sign reminded me, they didn't want us to send plutonium, used as power source, to the gas giant planets just in case life had evolved there and might be harmed.

They didn't want plutonium because Cassini had to do an Earth flyby to get a gravity boost to get out to Saturn.

40 posted on 01/15/2005 6:03:29 AM PST by Strategerist
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