Complete Huygens gallery

The Descent Imager Spectral Radiometer team, or DISR, have released the complete set of images from Titan (no high-res images?). There were 3 DISR cameras onboard Huygens so the images as shown as triplets. Explore the complete set of Huygens raw images. Since there was a failure with one of the 2 channels for transmitting data back to Cassini, we only have 350 images instead of the 700; apparently the command to instruct Cassini to start listening to channel A just wasn’t there (I guess 350 images is better than nothing!)

The onboard microphone has also captured some interesting sounds; expected to make top 40 anytime soon! Another interesting thing about the landing was the fact that the temperature inside Huygens was 25 Celsius despite the -180 outside; I wonder how…

Images will continue to get analysed in the next few days/weeks; the Hyugens blog should also have all the updates.

chris on January 17th 2005 in Space

2 Responses to “Complete Huygens gallery”

  1. [jc] responded on 19 Jan 2005 at 8:35 am #

    very nice

  2. JA responded on 22 Jan 2005 at 12:58 pm #

    Full moons, New moons and Crescent moons get all the attention, but what about the Gibbous moons (both waning and waxing)? Let’s hear it for the Gibbous. Hm, not a bad idea for the symbol on a future Oz flag, eh?