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.
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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.
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.
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.
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) |
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.
That photo is amazing. Looks like a Great Wall is built into the hillside.
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?).
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) |
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) |
Notice the rounded quality of the rocks in this photo. Looks like river stone you would find in a stream bed.
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.....
Heh! I just got home from work. Only thing I'll be hunting is sheep in about ten minutes.
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.
They didn't want plutonium because Cassini had to do an Earth flyby to get a gravity boost to get out to Saturn.
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