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

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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