Anyone else excited about the success of Huygens? I find it really interesting and the views of what looks like liquid ethane or methane oceans is pretty neat.

Heres the ESA's official huygens site:
http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Cassini-Huygens/index.html

Tim

*drool*

w00t!

im pretty excited about it!! ive been following it for a while now.

It is one of the most imporant achievments of mankind in a long time. Wow! look what we can do!!

yeah too bad its not a color camera.

-Supersprynt+Jan 16, 2005 - 7:34 PM
Well I don't know if the photos we've seen thus far are the finished product or just a hack job to show people something. They collected tons of data that im sure could contribute to a clearer picture of the surface.

Tim

-orvillescelica+Jan 16, 2005 - 6:52 PM
Ya me too, just thinking of the time and all the things that could have went wrong its amazing it went off with almost no problems. Its to bad they only got half the pictures they expected since one of the intenas didn't work.

It's nice to see such a project that could contribute so much to science come out of a partnership between Europeans and Americans.

Tim

-Supersprynt+Jan 16, 2005 - 6:34 PM

Come on!! these are pictures of a body that is 10 times further from earth than the sun! The data of color pictures are huge comapred to those of black and white, and i dont know any exact numbers, but the data transmission window must be very narrow, so im sure they want as many pictures as they can get with the data tranfser rate they have.

Its amazing!! what we are seeing is what earth might have looked like 4 billion years ago!