On Titan...


 


Looks like Huygens is on Titan:

01.14.05 (10:15 a.m. ET) - Radio telescopes on Earth confirm that the European Space Agency's (ESA's) Huygens probe has landed on the surface of Titan. NASA's Cassini spacecraft has turned its antenna to Earth and will relay the data received from the probe over the next few hours to NASA's Deep Space Network. It takes one hour and 7 minutes for the signal to travel from Cassini to Earth. The European Space Agency will get the first look at that data at approximately 11:30 a.m. EST.

Tonight they are expecting to have some pictures, which should be really cool.

Update: Here is the first image:


Looks like Mars to me. Hey can you see that guy waving in the background? Sorry.




Image 2 (but labeled 3..hmmm)

Posted: Friday - January 14, 2005 at 09:23          


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