Titan probe has landed, awaiting pictures
 

http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/space/01/1 ... index.html

Landing was a success, probe has been transmitting for far longer then originally hoped for. Hopefully the cameras weren't damaged.

*would like them to find some aliens....with afros*

afraliens?...

Oh yes.

This sounds like a thread I would start. biggrin:

I've been watching for the past couple hours. Watched for a few last night. Right now their just getting raw data of the probe on status and stuff. No pictures yet.

2:45 - 3:15 p.m. eastern- ESA Commentary "Presentation of First 18 Images from Titan" - JPL/ESA (Mission Coverage)

You can watch live here:
http://www.nasa.gov/55644main_NASATV_Windows.asx
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/hu ... 50114.html

very interesting beer:

happy: dance:

cant wait for the pictures. i think theyre comming out in a few minutes

It's amazing we can land a craft like that sooooo many miles away and years away !!

Anyone know how long the journey took ??
"The two vehicles were launched together from Florida in 1997." <---- WOW ed:

NASA TV just started broadcasting the feed

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv

EDIT-> I see pictures!

They are only showing the one picture from 16km

http://esamultimedia.esa.int/images/tit ... tional.mp3

[img]http://esamultimedia.esa.int/images/esoc.jpg[/img]

I smell Imperialism. biggrin:

They won't show anything closer until they've had time to Photoshop the cities out of the images.

[img]http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2005/TECH/space/01/14/huygens.titan/top.main.titan.shoreline.jpg[/img]

Alien lifeform?

That's from 16km out. I hope not oOo:

[img]http://esamultimedia.esa.int/images/cassini_huygens/huygens_land/landing_01_H.jpg[/img]
Very first picture from the surface of titan ever by mankind.

looks like it landed on solid ground. They wern't sure whether it would land on surface or in some methane lake or something since the place seems so mixed up with solid surface and liquids.


Edit:

ESA took the above image down for some reason. Maybe it's not titan at all and really is africa. hake:

they replaced it with
[img]http://esamultimedia.esa.int/images/cassini_huygens/huygens_land/landing_03_H.jpg[/img]

So I don't know if the first pic of the surface is titan at all. I think their confused.

Like Noctis said, that is from way above the surface, as Huygens parachuted to the surface. As well as taking pictures, it was sampling the atmosphere, so we'll probably get some definitive asnwers as to the make up of the atmosphere.

The wrinkles are likley canals where rivers flow. They may not flow anymore, or perhaps they are. ESA and NASA can figure that out.

Looks like North Africa. Staged?

[img]http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/moons/images/IMG001299-br500.jpg[/img]
Huygens at Titan
January 14, 2005

This is one of the first raw, or unprocessed, images from the European Space Agency's Huygens probe as it descended to Saturn's moon Titan. It was taken with the Descent Imager/Spectral Radiometer, one of two NASA instruments on the probe.

The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the Cassini-Huygens mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The Descent Imager/Spectral team is based at the University of Arizona, Tucson, Ariz.

Credit: ESA/NASA/University of Arizona

Looks like a desert.

Here's another not even publically listed on their site yet:

[img]http://www.esa.int/images/landing02_L.jpg[/img]

I have no idea what it is.

[img]http://www.esa.int/images/landing01_L2.jpg[/img]
14 January 2005
This raw image was returned by the ESA Huygens DISR camera after the probe descended through the atmosphere of Titan. It shows the surface of Titan with ice blocks strewn around. The size and distance of the blocks will be determined when the image is properly processed.

Credits: ESA/NASA/University of Arizona

[img]http://www.esa.int/images/landing03_L2.jpg[/img]
14 January 2005
This is one of the first raw images returned by the ESA Huygens probe during its successful descent. It was taken from an altitude of 16.2 kilometres with a resolution of approximately 40 metres per pixel. It apparently shows short, stubby drainage channels leading to a shoreline.

[img]http://www.esa.int/images/landing02_L2,0.jpg[/img]
14 January 2005 This is one of the first raw images returned by the ESA Huygens probe during its successful descent.It was taken at an altitude of 8 kilometres with a resolution of 20 metres per pixel. It shows what could be the landing site, with shorelines and boundaries between raised ground and flooded plains.

I was watching some Crackerjack NASA employee talking about that very first picture. He said that what looked like rock on the ground was probably Ice... oOo:


**Edit: Needs to look at other posts before writing response**

Is it just me, or does that look like an ocean to the side? Kinda funny..Im learning about all of Jupiter and Saturns moons right now in school.

could be. if it is, it's most likley methane.

Wow, thats great. Where theres water, theres life..I'm not really sure what this probe can do...will it be searching the water, if it can?

this is not water. this is methane.

the tempure on titan is something like -180 celcius. liquid water can't exist that far out in the solar system unless it's deep down near the core of a planet or moon like Europa, which is a moon of Jupiter. That is the best place to look for life in teh solar system. I believe there is a probe going there that will land, and then melt a hole in the ice that is miles deep to eventually get to where there is liquid water to see what lives down there.

The one thing about titan is the little balls in one of those pics up there they say are made of ice. Frozen water. So life could actually live there since we've found life in the ince in antarctica etc. although titan is a lot colder than antarctica, so i doubt it, but you never know. Anyway, we won't know until we get a rover type thing there to take samples. Huygens is already dead. It can't run on solar power because its so far away form the sun and the atmosphere is so thick. so it relies on batteries and Cassini also must orbit above it to relay the info to earth. cassini has now set, so huygens can't transmit. cassini won't be back to where huygens can transmit for 31 days. I don't think the batteries are supposed to last longer than a few hours. so basically all were getting today is about 300 pictures some sounds, because it had a mic onboard and probably some colour photos and analysis of the atmosphere.

....how much resistance can this little probe take before it just freezes?

BTW...are you Mr. Knudson...?

well I don't think the cold is a problem. It traveled through space for 7 years in the cold, although i don't know how cold it would ahve to be for them to stop working. Maybe ask the russians. they seem to like to send probes to places like venus where their machines melt.

It warms itself up when it boots up. It has to warm all its computers and instruments. The problem with it is batteries. They don't last forever and no one is on titan to recharge them.

Take the rovers for example. On mars it's -90 degrees or so i believe on average, and those guys are still going on solar power. the cold doesn't hurt them. they shut down during night and drive during the day. they were supposed to last 3 months or so. they've lasted over a year. so if titan was close to a star and had no atmosphere, they could ahve made it solar power and it could last for quite a while.

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Child molestor from Mars.

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Child molestor from Mars.[/quote:9b325]

I wonder if there are any hot alien chicks on mars so I can participate in some massive orgies.

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Astro-Gonorrhoea

oOo:

[img]http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/moons/images/PIA07232-br500.jpg[/img]
First Color View of Titan's Surface
January 15, 2005

This image was returned yesterday, January 14, 2005, by the European Space Agency's Huygens probe during its successful descent to land on Titan. This is the colored view, following processing to add reflection spectra data, and gives a better indication of the actual color of the surface.

Initially thought to be rocks or ice blocks, they are more pebble-sized. The two rock-like objects just below the middle of the image are about 15 centimeters (about 6 inches) (left) and 4 centimeters (about 1.5 inches) (center) across respectively, at a distance of about 85 centimeters (about 33 inches) from Huygens. The surface is darker than originally expected, consisting of a mixture of water and hydrocarbon ice. There is also evidence of erosion at the base of these objects, indicating possible fluvial activity. The image was taken with the Descent Imager/Spectral Radiometer, one of two NASA instruments on the probe.

The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the Cassini-Huygens mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The Descent Imager/Spectral team is based at the University of Arizona, Tucson, Ariz.

For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.cfm .

Credit: ESA/NASA/Univ. of Arizona

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[img]http://www.esa.int/images/Picture3_XL,0.jpg[/img]
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Composite of Titan's Surface Seen During Descent
January 15, 2005

This composite was produced from images returned yesterday, January 14, 2005, by the European Space Agency'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.

As the probe descended, it drifted over a plateau (center of image) and was heading towards its landing site in a dark area (right). From the drift of the probe, the wind speed has been estimated at around 6-7 kilometers (about 4 miles) per hour.

These images were taken from an altitude of about 8 kilometers ( about 5 miles) with a resolution of about 20 meters (about 65 feet) per pixel. The images were taken by the Descent Imager/Spectral Radiometer, one of two NASA instruments on the probe. The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the Cassini-Huygens mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The Descent Imager/Spectral team is based at the University of Arizona, Tucson, Ariz.

For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.cfm .

Credit: ESA/NASA/Univ. of Arizona


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http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/v ... qthigh.mov
Huygens Descent into Another World
Martin Tomasko, principal investigator for the Descent Imager/Spectral Radiometer on the Huygens probe, describes some of the first images the probe beamed back from Titan on Jan. 14, 2005. This 2 minute, 30 second clip was taken from the European Space Agency's live coverage of Huygens historic descent to the surface of Titan.

Credit: European Space Agency

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Want to hear what Titan sounds like?

1. Speeding through Titan's haze
This recording is a laboratory reconstruction of the sounds heard by Huygens' microphones. Several sound samples, taken at different times during the descent, are here combined together and give a realistic reproduction of what a traveller on board Huygens would have heard during one minute of the descent through Titan's atmosphere.
http://esamultimedia.esa.int/images/huy ... escent.mp3

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2. Radar echos from Titan's surface
This recording was produced by converting into audible sounds some of the radar echoes received by Huygens during the last few kilometres of its descent onto Titan. As the probe approaches the ground, both the pitch and intensity increase. Scientists will use intensity of the echoes to speculate about the nature of the surface.
http://esamultimedia.esa.int/images/huy ... _radar.mp3

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[img]http://esamultimedia.esa.int/images/cassini_huygens/huygens_land/Picture2.jpg[/img]
15 January 2005
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 with a resolution of about 20 metres per pixel.

Credits: ESA/NASA/University of Arizona

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[img]http://esamultimedia.esa.int/images/cassini_huygens/huygens_land/Picture6.png[/img]
15 January 2005
This raw image was returned yesterday, 14 January 2005, by ESA's Huygens probe during its successful descent to land on Titan. Sizes have been added to indicate scale of these features. Initially thought to be rocks or ice blocks, they are more pebble-sized. The two rock-like objects just below the middle of the image are about 15 centimetres (left) and 4 centimetres (centre) across respectively, at a distance of about 85 centimetres from Huygens. The surface is darker than originally expected, consisting of a mixture of water and hydrocarbon ice. There is also evidence of erosion at the base of these objects, indicating possible fluvial activity.

Credits: ESA/NASA/University of Arizona

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that looks like the eastern seaboard of the US if the oceans dried up. OMG its a prophecy!! WE SUKAS IS ALL DEAD!

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ya and after that they cut off your dick and make you immortal... oOo:

Thanks for the update ninty, any more updates on the situation? I'm fascinated by things like this, gets your imagination flowing

not that i know of. the esa is really slow at releasing pictures. its kind of gay. nasa releases hundreds of pictures whenever they become avaliable, i don't know why esa doesn't. if i find anything else i'll post it.