[wellylug] OT: Huygens Descent onto (into?) the surface of Titan

Seby Sebastian.Krueger at mcs.vuw.ac.nz
Fri Jan 14 14:54:12 NZDT 2005


Do you know where to go to check the results?

Cheers, Seby.

On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, David Antliff wrote:

> Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 14:46:28 +1300 (NZDT)
> From: David Antliff <dave.antliff at paradise.net.nz>
> Reply-To: wellylug at lists.wellylug.org.nz
> To: wellylug at lists.wellylug.org.nz
> Subject: [wellylug] OT: Huygens Descent onto (into?) the surface of Titan
> 
>
> Don't forget - starting around 11:20pm tonight (NZ) the Huygens probe, which 
> detached from the Cassini space craft on Dec. 24th last year, begins it's 
> final descent to the surface of Saturn's moon, Titan.
>
> Main website:
> http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Cassini-Huygens/index.html
>
> Webcam of control room:
> http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Cassini-Huygens/SEMN3Y274OD_0.html
>
> The interesting aspect of this mission is that the atmosphere of Titan is 
> presumed to be similar to that of a primordial Earth, and scientists are also 
> not sure what the surface consists of.
>
> Unfortunately we won't know the result until 16:15 UTC, which must be about 
> 3:15am here I think.
>
>

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