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Probe reaches Saturn moon

This map of a portion of the surface of Saturn's moon Titan shows predictions for the areas that will be covered by selected combinations of images anticipated from the camera on the Huygens probe.

Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

Huygens probe path

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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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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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