Huygens has landed!

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6881

And is beaming back info! Woaaa. It's a great relief. I had the black hunch that the mission would be a failure.

 

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I can't wait to see the pictures. The first images of a planet with a thick enough atmosphere to actually contain suprises. Watched the NASA feed and they are saying the first images sohuld be up by about 1:00 PM PST (an hour and 20 minutes from this post)

 

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Looks like a change of terrain on the right - looks like land to sea to me. Any bets on which one Huygens will land in/on?

 

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Looks like it hit land. And there is ice!

 

That's amazing. This planet (or moon) is much more interesting than Mars.

 

Is the Europa? I'm surprised they had already sent something there.
That's great! We might be finding extraterrestrial life soon...!

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Nope, Titan. Cassini is exploring the Saturnian moons. According to the latest on the ESA site, they already have at least 350 images. And if this is what the raw data looks like, I can't wait to see the finished images.

 

Yea, I've been following this all day. AMAZING!

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I'm really happy!
And it somehow feels good that at last there's an European probe somewhere first, and what a place!!

 

Anyone know if we are going to get some color photos?

 

The cameras are not colour types. However, by use of spectrscopic data and skillful interpretation they will be able to reconstruct colour imaqes. Expect the first to appear next week.

 

Here's a cool panorama or mosaic of the images as it came down. Some rather small and faint images. Though, from the little we can see it's incredible. Look's so much like Earth, just frozen

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Titan Pan Image (CLICK HERE)

 

Here's a color contrasted one, struggling to get a hint at more details!

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I hope they release higher quality images.

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I lightened up the image to bring up some more detail. Unfortunately, there simply wasn't enough information in the second and fourth pane to see much.

 

The bricks of ice are very promising. I forecast that they will discover liquid lakes of some substance...

 

Those images of the "bricks of ice" could almost be an aerial view of an Earthly sea port, with highways, jetties, quays and city blocks... it's tempting to think of the plain, dark area in the lower part of the images as a sea or lake, though it could just as easily be a flat, fresh cryo-lava flow. The rocky plain picture Top Mosker posted looks very like Martian - I suppose the colours might not be far off either, if we could see them.

 

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The larger, color images might be breath-taking when they come out

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cant wait until they do

 

A color image here!
http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Cassini-Huygens/SEMC8Q71Y3E_0.html

 

Are those snow caps??

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I was referring to the last picture in Lucas' link, by the way...

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