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*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