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Scarla O
= Cult of Ray =
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 01/11/2005 : 02:58:46
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I hope you're all waiting patiently for the imminent landing of the Huygen's probe on Titan. Titan is the only satellite in the solar system with an atmosphere and possibly the only body in the solar system save Earth with lakes (albeit Titan's are thought to be of liquid methane).
Touch down is scheduled for the 14th Janauary...pictures a little bit later.
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.cfm
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KimStanleyRobinson
* Dog in the Sand *
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Posted - 01/11/2005 : 12:36:32
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I can't say I've been watching, but I can say i'm excited.
Titan is - you're right - most likely to have lakes...(life)...wierd stuff.
Yay for wierd stuff.
Especially when you gotta fly to one of the moons of freekin Saturn to find it.
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Scarla O
= Cult of Ray =
United Kingdom
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Posted - 01/12/2005 : 01:41:35
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Nice picture KimStanleyRobinson...I'm hoping for some good photographs from that little probe. |
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bishk99
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Posted - 01/14/2005 : 10:23:26
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Touchdown!
Can't wait to see and, interestingly enough, hear whats been sent back.
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The Huygens space probe has sent back its first set of data about Saturn's largest moon, Titan, after landing successfully say space scientists.
The spacecraft probe had still been transmitting data for over two hours after it had landed they confirmed.
"We are the first visitors to Titan," said an excited Jean-Jacques Dordain, director general of the European Space Agency (Esa).
It is also the furthest from Earth a spacecraft has ever been landed.
"In the morning we had an engineering success and this afternoon we can also say we have a scientific success," he added.
Close to tears, Alphonso Diaz, associate administrator for science at the US space agency (Nasa), said: "There will only be on first landing on Titan, and this is it."
Scientists were now piecing together the data - images, measurements and sounds - that was being beamed back to Earth.
See how the Huygens probe descended to Titan
They confirmed, however, that one of two channels on the probe taking measurements had stopped working.
But the most important channel - B - which was responsible for measuring Titan's surface chemistry, was functioning well.
"We're going to be working very hard in the next hours and days. This data is data for posterity," said Professor David Southwood, Esa's director of science.
The sounds of Titan's stormy atmosphere were recorded with an onboard microphone, and scientists hope that they might even hear lightning strikes when they analyse the data.
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TheCroutonFuton
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Posted - 01/14/2005 : 10:28:48
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Amazing stuff! Should be very neat to hear lightning from another planet. (well, moon...)
I can't wait for the pictures, either. Should be great.
Animal think...They're pretty smart!
Shit on the ground...See in the dark! |
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KimStanleyRobinson
* Dog in the Sand *
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Posted - 01/14/2005 : 10:31:06
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Yes, I'm tweaked too.
This is just so very neat!
Headed over th JPL... |
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TheCroutonFuton
- Mr. Setlists -
USA
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Posted - 01/14/2005 : 10:34:43
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"Titan as Orange Globe: Titan as we might see it with our eyes from the Cassini UV camera (colorized). Credit: NASA/JPL"
Animals think...They're pretty smart!
Shit on the ground...See in the dark! |
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KimStanleyRobinson
* Dog in the Sand *
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Posted - 01/14/2005 : 14:38:34
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HEY! its
ROCKS!
I feel like Charlie Brown on halloween.
I want the 9-foot green men with four arms dammit!
No, i don't, but I wanted more than rocks.
I wanted a lake.
I got rocks.
I like my rocks, tho.
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Homers_pet_monkey
= Official forum monkey =
United Kingdom
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Posted - 01/14/2005 : 15:08:51
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Let's hope it fairs better than our Beagle 2 probe did around Mars.
Isn't Saturn the prettiest planet though?
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Homers_pet_monkey
= Official forum monkey =
United Kingdom
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Posted - 01/14/2005 : 15:11:09
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Just noticed that it's on live on BBC2 at 11:30 tonight. That's 22 minutes away. Think I may watch that.
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speedy_m
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Posted - 01/14/2005 : 15:24:59
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Homers_pet_monkey
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United Kingdom
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TheCroutonFuton
- Mr. Setlists -
USA
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Posted - 01/14/2005 : 17:41:31
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This picture was taken at 16 Kilometers up. Looks like there's an ocean or a lake or something. Fun!
Animals think...They're pretty smart!
Shit on the ground...See in the dark! |
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floop
= Wannabe Volunteer =
Mexico
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Posted - 01/14/2005 : 17:45:40
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quote:
Originally posted by TheCroutonFuton
"Titan as Orange Globe: Titan as we might see it with our eyes from the Cassini UV camera (colorized). Credit: NASA/JPL"
Animals think...They're pretty smart!
Shit on the ground...See in the dark!
it looks yellow to me
ist es möglich für ein quesadilla skrotum zu lecken? beim sprechen der quesadillas von LBF, ja. ja in der tatheheheheheheehehee! |
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broken part
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Posted - 01/14/2005 : 18:28:17
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I would like this as an album cover
quote:
Originally posted by TheCroutonFuton
"Titan as Orange Globe: Titan as we might see it with our eyes from the Cassini UV camera (colorized). Credit: NASA/JPL"
Animals think...They're pretty smart!
Shit on the ground...See in the dark!
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Homers_pet_monkey
= Official forum monkey =
United Kingdom
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Posted - 01/15/2005 : 02:24:50
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quote:
Originally posted by TheCroutonFuton
This picture was taken at 16 Kilometers up. Looks like there's an ocean or a lake or something. Fun!
Animals think...They're pretty smart!
Shit on the ground...See in the dark!
Yeah I saw that. It looks a bit like a huge dinosaur footprint.
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ObfuscateByWill
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
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Posted - 01/15/2005 : 03:07:48
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"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 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." Link
Looks like shoreline.
 Take a bite of the chocolate coffin. |
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Scarla O
= Cult of Ray =
United Kingdom
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Posted - 01/17/2005 : 02:49:10
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Here's a good picture of the surface taken as Huygens descended...
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Homers_pet_monkey
= Official forum monkey =
United Kingdom
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Posted - 01/17/2005 : 09:17:16
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It really does look like shoreline. Very much so.
You sure you're not trying to fool us with a picture off earth?
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ObfuscateByWill
* Dog in the Sand *
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Posted - 01/17/2005 : 10:03:24
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Has anyone else DL'd the mp3's available?
Sounds like plain ol' wind, but it's still cool.
Take a bite of the chocolate coffin. |
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Homers_pet_monkey
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ObfuscateByWill
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Homers_pet_monkey
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Posted - 01/17/2005 : 14:22:55
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Thanks. Not too much to be made of them really is there? I was keen to hear the ones from after impact but "all the sound we can hear is likely internal to the microphone, according to Peter Falkner, a member of the HASI-PWA team".
Shame. Thanks again though.
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Scarla O
= Cult of Ray =
United Kingdom
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Posted - 01/18/2005 : 01:41:09
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quote:
Originally posted by Homers_pet_monkey
It really does look like shoreline. Very much so.
You sure you're not trying to fool us with a picture off earth?
Hey...I wouldn't do that!
However I was slightly disappointed that we didn't see any sea on Titan but then I saw this newly released image from the European space Agency:
Titan on January 14th, 14.56 CET
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Homers_pet_monkey
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United Kingdom
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VoVat
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
USA
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Posted - 01/20/2005 : 16:36:48
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I had some outdated book about space travel when I was a kid, and it said something about how Conrad Hilton's dad was willing to start a hotel in space if travel there ever became cheap enough.
"Reunion? Shit union!" |
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Homers_pet_monkey
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United Kingdom
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