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First photos from Titan!

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This afternoon, the European Space Agency's probe Huygen's landed successfully on Saturn's moon of Titan. I've been waiting for this for years!

Its been travelling for 7 years and over a BILLION miles to get there, woah.

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This is one of the first raw images returned by the ESA Huygens probe during its successful descent. It was taken from an altitude of 16.2 kilometres with a resolution of approximately 40 metres per pixel. It apparently shows short, stubby drainage channels leading to a shoreline.
I love this picture so much, its amazing, a moon a billion miles away, and there is a fucking river delta and shorelines! Apparently the liquid in the oceans is liquid methane, as the temperature is far too low for liquid water. I want Titan methane SEA MONSTERS!


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This is one of the first raw images returned by the ESA Huygens probe during its successful descent.It was taken at an altitude of 8 kilometres with a resolution of 20 metres per pixel. It shows what could be the landing site, with shorelines and boundaries between raised ground and flooded plains.
I don't really get what is going on in this one.

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This raw image was returned by the ESA Huygens DISR camera after the probe descended through the atmosphere of Titan. It shows the surface of Titan with ice blocks strewn around. The size and distance of the blocks will be determined when the image is properly processed.
This one is brilliant, even though I don't quite get the perspective on it, I don't know if those lumps are massive, or fairly small - either way, ICE BLOCKS!. Is that the coastline in the background as well? Apparently the roundness of the rocks and ice blocks supports the river delta theory.

How much better than Mars is this!
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This picture just came in too, wonder what it is?

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Whoa!
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ah hahaha.
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Yea I've been checking this out, pretty interesting stuff.

Now in colour!

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Nice little animation of the landing on bbc's website too!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4175099.stm
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The ESA scientitians have worked their magic:

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For once, something that actually deserves a smiley :shock:

I need more space missions!
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yeah, now that is impressive.
are they going to find little green men? or maybe orange ones.
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Post by willy the piss »

wow
from ganymede to titan yessir i've been around but there aint no place in the whole of space like the good old toddlin town... 8)
maybe the sunken ship is the treasure
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