Huygens probe entered Titan's atmosphere
NASA reported at 10:15 am ET this morning that radio
telescopes on Earth confirm that the European Space Agency's probe has landed on
the surface of Saturn's moon Titan.
ESA will get the first look at the data at
approximately 11:30 am EST.
According to ESA's Cassini-Huygens web site, the carrier signal from the probe was detected at 11:25 CET by a radio telescope in West Virginia after the probe had begun its descent through Titan's atmosphere. Radio telescopes in Australia, China, Japan, and the USA are involved in tracking the probe and hope to reconstruct the probe's descent trajectory with one kilometer accuracy using Very Long Baseline Interferometry and Doppler tracking techniques.
Huygens Probe Landing site (Credit: ESA)
According to ESA's Cassini-Huygens web site, the carrier signal from the probe was detected at 11:25 CET by a radio telescope in West Virginia after the probe had begun its descent through Titan's atmosphere. Radio telescopes in Australia, China, Japan, and the USA are involved in tracking the probe and hope to reconstruct the probe's descent trajectory with one kilometer accuracy using Very Long Baseline Interferometry and Doppler tracking techniques.
Huygens Probe Landing site (Credit: ESA)
Posted: Friday - January 14, 2005 at 10:18 AM
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