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NASA - Huygens Probe Lands on Saturn's Moon, Titan

This movie was built with data collected during the 147-minute plunge through Titan's thick orange-brown atmosphere to a soft sandy riverbed by the European Space Agency's Huygens Descent Imager/Spectral Radiometer on Jan. 14, 2005.In 4 minutes and 40 seconds, the movie shows what the probe 'saw' within the few hours of the descent and the landing. On approach, Titan appeared as just a little disk in the sky among the stars, but after landing, the probe's camera resolved little grains of sand millions of times smaller than Titan. At first, the Huygens camera just saw fog over the distant surface. The fog started to clear only at about 60 kilometers (37 miles) altitude, making it possible to resolve surface features as large as 100 meters (328 feet). Only after landing could the probe's camera resolve the little grains of sand. The movie provides a glimpse of such a huge change of scale.The Huygens probe was delivered to Saturn's moon Titan by the Cassini spacecraft, which is managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. NASA supplied two instruments on the probe, the descent imager/spectral radiometer and the gas chromatograph mass spectrometer.

Channel: News & Politics
Uploaded: November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am
Author: MyEarbot

Length: 04:50
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Tags: Cassini Huygens JPL Moon NASA Probe Saturn spacecraft Titan

Video Comments

Marcos062 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

thats awsome

GrowTheCaine (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

im not self rightious you idiot i just want people to have an actual choice to die or not and im sure even u want that option! And plus if u want earth to be the only planet so be it but other people trieing to do more than just sit here and say "fuck it"

peymaania (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

you are so self-righteous, you must be very young. Listen Bucko, the earth is the only planet we've got, and inter planetary spacetravel will take centuries...we'll both belong dead by then. But it is good to havedreams, work hard to make them come true!

GrowTheCaine (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

but stuff to do with the American space program is soo friggin important...do u know why....cause if our planet was to ever be compromised what the hell are we going to do....just sit here? id like to think not some of the planets around saturn and jupiter have the possibility to maybe create life and the space program is the only way to study and possibly make it to these planets so if u want to be a moron and die then u can but im gonna suport these space projects....sorry

peymaania (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Iwas going to say, "it takes one to know one!"Hahahahahah...well to answer your question,I do it because it is REAL HARD WORK, and I like to be challenged. Being a moron is notso easy, I have to take away REASON & ACCOUNTABILITY!

GrowTheCaine (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

why are u such a moron dude?

sa6uto (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

it took the men of nasa and the european organisations 14 years to construct and blast off cassini and you dont even show a little respect i cant believe it

peymaania (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

I'd like to send a probe into Barbara Bush'sVagina! Then I like to see her foul pussy explode into smitherines!

Blueknightex (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Lolz it looks like a Peanut Butter Donut

srzy (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

its made of cheese!! mmm cheese its