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« Reply #30 on: January 13, 2005, 12:51:11 PM »
Ditto :D
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« Reply #31 on: January 13, 2005, 01:37:04 PM »
Can't wait to see the pictures.  What sucks is this will not get as much attention since the presidental inaugration is on the same day.
The Cassini probe has already paid off with all the new discoveries of Saturn but the Huygens probe is the icing on the cake.

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« Reply #32 on: January 14, 2005, 06:02:08 AM »
It must've happened by now. Man, I can't wait to hear the outcome
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« Reply #33 on: January 14, 2005, 08:58:36 AM »
The probe is currently descending. We should be getting data sometime after 10am this morning eastern time.
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« Reply #34 on: January 14, 2005, 09:21:17 AM »
Huygens probe landed successfully on Titan. Still waiting for data.
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« Reply #35 on: January 14, 2005, 11:02:24 AM »
That's great news!
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« Reply #36 on: January 14, 2005, 11:02:31 AM »
Cassini is now sending data towards Earth :mrgreen:
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« Reply #37 on: January 14, 2005, 11:21:42 AM »
There's cheering in the control room! They must've gotten some pictures. :)


Edit: Maybe not... I think they've just confirmed telemetry or something. They aren't really explaining what is going on at the moment. I think maybe this is a repeat of earlier events, not live! D'oh!
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« Reply #38 on: January 14, 2005, 11:50:48 AM »
According to a CNN QuickVote pole:

How would you describe the $3.3-billion Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn?

59% Historic scientific endeavor :D
36% Waste of money  :evil:
 5% Chance to search for aliens :roll:
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« Reply #39 on: January 14, 2005, 11:51:27 AM »
the cheering had to do with a table on screen starting to fill up with figures. Currently a press conference is underway, but they are only discussing fluffy politics
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« Reply #40 on: January 14, 2005, 11:55:20 AM »
Wow: the NASA representative just got all emotional about it
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« Reply #41 on: January 14, 2005, 12:34:13 PM »
Spaceflight Now reports that everything is working perfectly and that they should be able to extract pictures from the data stream sometime between 5 and 6 pm EST :D
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« Reply #42 on: January 14, 2005, 12:34:53 PM »
Quote from: Bob B.
According to a CNN QuickVote pole:

How would you describe the $3.3-billion Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn?

59% Historic scientific endeavor :D
36% Waste of money  :evil:
 5% Chance to search for aliens :roll:


Bob,
I notice that the media has been bashing space missions lately.  One network was bashing the Deep Impact mission.  

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« Reply #43 on: January 14, 2005, 03:32:00 PM »
ESA has released the first image from Titan :D

Looks a lot like Mars :shock:
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« Reply #44 on: January 14, 2005, 03:48:05 PM »
Mars? The image I saw from 10 miles altitude clearly shows swollen rivers. The topography looks like here in S. Cal. more than Mars to me.
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