― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 14 January 2005 19:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Yr3k (dymaxia), Friday, 14 January 2005 19:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 14 January 2005 19:55 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 14 January 2005 19:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dominique (dleone), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:05 (nineteen years ago) link
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 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gator Magoon (Chris Barrus), Friday, 14 January 2005 22:36 (nineteen years ago) link
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 (nineteen years ago) link
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 15 January 2005 15:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 15 January 2005 15:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 15 January 2005 16:28 (nineteen years ago) link
I guess you can say you weren't disappointed!
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 17 January 2005 04:41 (nineteen years ago) link
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 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 21 January 2005 15:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gator Magoon (Chris Barrus), Friday, 21 January 2005 16:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 21 January 2005 16:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Yr3k (dymaxia), Friday, 21 January 2005 16:13 (nineteen years ago) link
"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 (nineteen years ago) link
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 (nineteen years ago) link
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/videos/video-details.cfm?videoID=99
― Lingbertt, Wednesday, 19 October 2005 06:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― Bill A (Bill A), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 09:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― robster (robster), Thursday, 20 October 2005 10:39 (eighteen years ago) link
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0505/saturnplane_cassini.jpg
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 19:11 (eighteen years ago) link
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 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 11 March 2006 02:22 (eighteen years ago) link
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/videothumbnails/images/IMG002117-br402.jpg
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 5 May 2006 19:00 (eighteen years ago) link
...s on the surface.
― DOQQUN (donut), Friday, 5 May 2006 19:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 5 May 2006 19:17 (eighteen years ago) link
Titan's all cold and stuff!
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 5 May 2006 19:18 (eighteen years ago) link
I was kind of disappointed about "earth-like" comparisons in the narrative. Dudes, it's METHANE RAIN and -180 degrees. It ain't earth. (OR IS IT??)
― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 5 May 2006 19:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 5 May 2006 19:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 5 May 2006 19:29 (eighteen years ago) link
It's ROCHESTER, NY!
― DOQQUN (donut), Friday, 5 May 2006 19:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 5 May 2006 20:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― robster (robster), Friday, 5 May 2006 21:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― Lingbert, Saturday, 3 March 2007 19:38 (seventeen years ago) link
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6908190.stm
another moon, only 2km in diam. are these really worth classing as moons i ask yer. Aren't they just spin-offs from the ring of rocks?
― Ste, Friday, 20 July 2007 15:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Well but they're special rocks.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 21 July 2007 00:24 (sixteen years ago) link
special as in olympics?
― StanM, Saturday, 21 July 2007 00:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Images coming in from yesterday's close flyby of Iapetus
http://www.planetary.org/image/iapetus_cassini_20070910_SATUSHINE001_PRIME_colormos_lg.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 00:05 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.planetary.org/image/iapetus_cassini_20070910_ICYMAP003_UVIS_mosaic_regan_lg.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 00:06 (sixteen years ago) link
these are kind of creepy.
― 31g, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 02:40 (sixteen years ago) link
More evidence for Titan having a subsurface ocean
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 21 March 2008 03:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Late late mission barnstorming over Saturn
Although the first mission extension for Cassini hasn't officially been approved yet by NASA Headquarters (which strikes me as being kind of silly, since the primary mission comes to a close in less than two months!!), the mission is already trying to figure out what to do beyond the two-year proposed Extended Mission. Last week there was a meeting of the Outer Planets Assessment Group, and Cassini's Deputy Project Scientist, Linda Spilker, gave a presentation on what to expect from the extended missions (here it is, in PDF format, well worth a look). There was a lot of stuff about the science to be expected from the extended mission, and a proposal for an extended-extended mission, but the real stunner was a scenario she presented for Cassini's end-of-life: to spend the very, very last phase of the mission in an orbit that threads Cassini between Saturn's cloud tops and the innermost D ring.Folks, the gap between Saturn and the D ring is only about 3,000 kilometers wide. I suppose for a mission to a place like Mars, 3,000 kilometers of leeway is quite a lot. But Saturn is 120,000 kilometers across, and the main ring system extends another 60,000 kilometers or so above Saturn; Cassini would have to do an orbital maneuver to majorly drop its periapsis (closest approach point) to right in between the planet and its rings, leaping over the main ring system in the process. The idea seems totally crazy.
Folks, the gap between Saturn and the D ring is only about 3,000 kilometers wide. I suppose for a mission to a place like Mars, 3,000 kilometers of leeway is quite a lot. But Saturn is 120,000 kilometers across, and the main ring system extends another 60,000 kilometers or so above Saturn; Cassini would have to do an orbital maneuver to majorly drop its periapsis (closest approach point) to right in between the planet and its rings, leaping over the main ring system in the process. The idea seems totally crazy.
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 13 April 2008 02:30 (sixteen years ago) link