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Probe reaches Saturn moon
This is a colorized view of the surface of Titan taken by the European Space Agency's Huygens probe. The two rock-like objects just below the middle of the image are about 6 inches (left) and about 1.5 inches (center) across respectively, at a distance of about about 33 inches from Huygens.
Credit: ESA/NASA/University of Arizona
- bring us your paper moon
- by Razzl January 18, 2005 1:56 PM PST
- The magnificent achievement of bringing us images of this fascinating world by way of tiny cameras with tiny power sources has been somewhat tarnished by the pokey pace of releasing them. The fascinating film sequences available at the ESA web site should have ditigized, cleaned up, blown up, and distributed by now. ESA is failing to grasp that the achievement of 7 years is slipping from public interest hour by hour. Images are a powerful tool and really more important for the future of the space endeavor than any other data they may be working on...
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