Cassini probe at Saturn... (warning -- large images!)

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WAH! I am seriously hoping this student of mine has a really good reason for not being here, otherwise I will be of the extremely peeved.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 14 January 2005 16:21 (twenty-one years ago)

it'll be 2-3 more hours before they can decipher anything presentable though ned
(assuming that it is valid data and the lens cap still isn't on etc.)

looks like announcement about to be made...

― Snowy Mann (rdmanston), Friday, 14 January 2005 16:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Right, sounds good. I do at last have video running if not audio, I see press milling around...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 14 January 2005 16:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I wonder how long it will take before ice monsters ransack Huygens.

― Dominique (dleone), Friday, 14 January 2005 16:30 (twenty-one years ago)

My bet is methane dragons,.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Friday, 14 January 2005 16:32 (twenty-one years ago)

So what's the woman in camo gear saying? "Our plan to tour Titan with a reconstituted lineup of Echo and the Bunnymen circa Heaven Up Here is now in effect..."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 14 January 2005 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

'...WE ARE THE FIRST VEESEETORS OF TITAN...'

― Snowy Mann (rdmanston), Friday, 14 January 2005 16:37 (twenty-one years ago)

caseenee iz sending ze data.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Friday, 14 January 2005 16:38 (twenty-one years ago)

mind you at least he can speak 2 languages instead of

― Snowy Mann (rdmanston), Friday, 14 January 2005 16:42 (twenty-one years ago)

less than 1

― Snowy Mann (rdmanston), Friday, 14 January 2005 16:42 (twenty-one years ago)

FIRST PICTURES PROBABLY AT 1945 GMT !

― Snowy Mann (rdmanston), Friday, 14 January 2005 17:26 (twenty-one years ago)

*calculates* About two hours from now...cool.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 14 January 2005 17:58 (twenty-one years ago)

awwww
I want to go to saturn now

― MY FAVOURITE LIGHTER IS CHEESEBURGER (trigonalmayhem), Friday, 14 January 2005 18:05 (twenty-one years ago)

and i'll be on the train when the press conference is happening :(

bbc news24 is going to be watched to within an inch of its life when i get home

― Snowy Mann (rdmanston), Friday, 14 January 2005 18:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Got NASA TV up here and still waiting patiently

― Gator Magoon (Chris Barrus), Friday, 14 January 2005 18:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I have the audio turned down low, I heard some rebroadcast of a Bush speech from last year and was feeling tetchy.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 14 January 2005 18:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Give us a heads up when it's about to go on. My cable company no longer carries NASA-TV. :( I do have a high-speed connection at home, though, now, so maybe I can watch it there.

― Yr3k (dymaxia), Friday, 14 January 2005 18:47 (twenty-one years ago)

NASA TV just switched over to Saturn news.

― Gator Magoon (Chris Barrus), Friday, 14 January 2005 19:37 (twenty-one years ago)

What would ILM have looked like during Geraldo's Al Capone's vault special?

― Dominique (dleone), Friday, 14 January 2005 19:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I mean ILx. Someone show me some pictures already.

― Dominique (dleone), Friday, 14 January 2005 19:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm just getting a 'switching live' image, is there any actual coverage yet?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 14 January 2005 19:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay, I see the ESA control room and a bunch of people standing around waiting...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 14 January 2005 19:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Yay, a promo video!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 14 January 2005 19:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Man, I can't see anything. Crap. :(

― Yr3k (dymaxia), Friday, 14 January 2005 19:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh wait, here we go...a very proper German is saying something proper.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 14 January 2005 19:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't want to see people applauding an image, I want the image!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 14 January 2005 19:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Whoa -- okay, that first one is already sweet! Rivers and maybe an ocean!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 14 January 2005 19:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Fucking fuck, though, the talking head hoohah is lame. The dude speaking French is cool, though.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Dudes, I should say.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay, that's it for now, but I believe there will be a further report in two hours time. Darn, I'll be on the desk again! Oh well, at least I'll see some video.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:04 (twenty-one years ago)

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

― Dominique (dleone), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:05 (twenty-one years ago)

On the ground:

http://esamultimedia.esa.int/images/cassini_huygens/huygens_land/landing_01_H.jpg

Higher up than the midrange shot:

http://esamultimedia.esa.int/images/cassini_huygens/huygens_land/landing_02_H.jpg

More photos and reports soon.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 14 January 2005 21:53 (twenty-one years ago)

JPL's site is getting swamped at the moment, but http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Cassini-Huygens/index.html is OK

― Gator Magoon (Chris Barrus), Friday, 14 January 2005 22:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Listen to Titan! Specifically the atmosphere, more details here.

A 360 view from about 8 kilometers up.

A smaller section of same:

http://esamultimedia.esa.int/images/cassini_huygens/huygens_land/Picture2.jpg

And the first color ground image.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 15 January 2005 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Sounds of an alien world (sort of).

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 15 January 2005 15:35 (twenty-one years ago)

But but but I just linked that page!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 15 January 2005 15:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh. Duh. Sorry.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 15 January 2005 16:28 (twenty-one years ago)

if there isn't a tangerine sea and marmalade sky in these photos I am gonna be so disappointed

I guess you can say you weren't disappointed!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 17 January 2005 04:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay, first press conference held about going over the findings, more here.

Another view of that 'coastline' area:

ihttp://esamultimedia.esa.int/images/cassini_huygens/huygens_land/press_release_050120/HRICoastLineMoasic_H.jpg

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 21 January 2005 15:38 (twenty-one years ago)

human exploration at this level is so cool.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 21 January 2005 15:50 (twenty-one years ago)

In other news, an experiment on Huygens that a scientist spent 18 years working on was forgotten about and never turned on.

― Gator Magoon (Chris Barrus), Friday, 21 January 2005 16:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh MAN.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 21 January 2005 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Whoa. That second .mp3 gave me a headache. That would make a great psychological terror instrument.

― Yr3k (dymaxia), Friday, 21 January 2005 16:13 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost - Still, given the circumstances, this is as reasonable a self-consolation as any:

"In total, the core of our team has invested something like 80 man years on this experiment, 18 of which are mine," Atkinson wrote. "I think right now the key lesson is this — if you're looking for a job with instant and guaranteed success, this isn't it."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 21 January 2005 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

three weeks pass...

Titan!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/05/sci_nat_enl_1108646012/img/1.jpg

The 440km-wide circular feature resembles a large crater or part of a ringed basin, either of which could have been formed when a comet or asteroid tens of km in size slammed into Titan. This is the first impact feature identified in radar images of Titan. (Image: Nasa/JPL)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 17 February 2005 17:39 (twenty-one years ago)

eight months pass...

This movie of the approach to/from Dione is incredible:

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/videos/video-details.cfm?videoID=99

― Lingbertt, Wednesday, 19 October 2005 06:17 (twenty years ago)

Incredible is right. That is genuinely astonishing.

― Bill A (Bill A), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 09:12 (twenty years ago)

UK people: Horizon tonight, 9pm, BBC2.

― robster (robster), Thursday, 20 October 2005 10:39 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

Damn.

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0505/saturnplane_cassini.jpg

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 19:11 (twenty years ago)

More recently.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/05/sci_nat_enl_1132146654/img/1.jpg

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 19:23 (twenty years ago)

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Brilliant. I will have to read that several times before it makes sense. I didn't know radio waves could carry imagery.

Cheers James!

― calstars, Saturday, 16 September 2017 02:45 (eight years ago)

radio can carry anything digital

― El Tomboto, Saturday, 16 September 2017 03:02 (eight years ago)

I want to visit the Canberra DSN post now, if I ever get to travel there again

― El Tomboto, Saturday, 16 September 2017 03:03 (eight years ago)

Nice in-house profile of members of the team and the build-up to the end.

https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/news/3122/cassinis-family-takes-the-plunge/

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 16 September 2017 03:57 (eight years ago)

Can anyone explain...

The telemetry downlink speed wasn't terrible. 14.2 baud, during Saturn orbit phase, if I'm reading this correctly. A state of the art 1991 phone modem.

― Special Egyptian Guest Star (Sanpaku), Saturday, 16 September 2017 05:19 (eight years ago)

Oops, 14400 kbit/s.

By comparison, New Horizons, sending back the data from its Pluto flyby, and using both antennas, was limited to 2000 bits per second. Your 1995 AOL dial-up was 28 times faster. Space porn requires patience.

― Special Egyptian Guest Star (Sanpaku), Saturday, 16 September 2017 05:25 (eight years ago)

one year passes...

Emptying out the Cassini conference room. (thread)

This is the ⁦@CassiniSaturn⁩ - VIMS Operations Center (read: conference room). For the rest of the month, my job is to dismantle it - making sure the stuff that needs to be destroyed gets destroyed, sorting out the rest. This is going to be fun! pic.twitter.com/fiPQxfRr2e
— Emily J (@EmExAstris) September 5, 2019

― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 12 September 2019 20:59 (six years ago)

two years pass...

Somebody just pointed me to this page, maybe it’s already mentioned upthread or elsewhere:
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

― Solaris Ocean Blue (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 13 February 2022 16:47 (four years ago)

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