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

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

― Dominique (dleone), Friday, 14 January 2005 16:30 (nineteen years ago) link

My bet is methane dragons,.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Friday, 14 January 2005 16:32 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― Snowy Mann (rdmanston), Friday, 14 January 2005 16:37 (nineteen years ago) link

caseenee iz sending ze data.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Friday, 14 January 2005 16:38 (nineteen years ago) link

mind you at least he can speak 2 languages instead of

― Snowy Mann (rdmanston), Friday, 14 January 2005 16:42 (nineteen years ago) link

less than 1

― Snowy Mann (rdmanston), Friday, 14 January 2005 16:42 (nineteen years ago) link

FIRST PICTURES PROBABLY AT 1945 GMT !

― Snowy Mann (rdmanston), Friday, 14 January 2005 17:26 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 14 January 2005 17:58 (nineteen years ago) link

awwww
I want to go to saturn now

― MY FAVOURITE LIGHTER IS CHEESEBURGER (trigonalmayhem), Friday, 14 January 2005 18:05 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

Got NASA TV up here and still waiting patiently

― Gator Magoon (Chris Barrus), Friday, 14 January 2005 18:27 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

NASA TV just switched over to Saturn news.

― Gator Magoon (Chris Barrus), Friday, 14 January 2005 19:37 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― Dominique (dleone), Friday, 14 January 2005 19:37 (nineteen years ago) link

I mean ILx. Someone show me some pictures already.

― Dominique (dleone), Friday, 14 January 2005 19:41 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 14 January 2005 19:45 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 14 January 2005 19:54 (nineteen years ago) link

Yay, a promo video!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 14 January 2005 19:54 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― Yr3k (dymaxia), Friday, 14 January 2005 19:55 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 14 January 2005 19:55 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 14 January 2005 19:56 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 14 January 2005 19:57 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

Dudes, I should say.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 14 January 2005 20:01 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

Sounds of an alien world (sort of).

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 15 January 2005 15:35 (nineteen years ago) link

But but but I just linked that page!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 15 January 2005 15:40 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh. Duh. Sorry.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 15 January 2005 16:28 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

human exploration at this level is so cool.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 21 January 2005 15:50 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh MAN.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 21 January 2005 16:12 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― Yr3k (dymaxia), Friday, 21 January 2005 16:13 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

Incredible is right. That is genuinely astonishing.

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

UK people: Horizon tonight, 9pm, BBC2.

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

three weeks pass...

Damn.

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

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

three months pass...

Oceans on Enceladus, perhaps. Another report here. It's big stuff...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 11 March 2006 02:22 (eighteen years ago) link

one month passes...

A Huygens descent movie has been made available, along with new Titan images:

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/videothumbnails/images/IMG002117-br402.jpg

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 5 May 2006 19:00 (seventeen years ago) link

DUNE...

...s on the surface.

― DOQQUN (donut), Friday, 5 May 2006 19:11 (seventeen years ago) link

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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 (six years ago) link

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 (six years ago) link

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 (six years ago) link

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 (four years ago) link

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 (two years ago) link

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