Titan Landing

[Technomancer]

This is a story I've been following for a while, and now it seems to have come out successfully. The first image from the surface of Titan have come back, and while not truly spectacular, do betray some fascinating details.

http://www1.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/main/

It'll be interesting to see if any information about Titan's supposed methane ocean can be found.

[shooraijin]

Yeah, I was disappointed there wasn't more commentary on that, although they do mention shorelines of a fashion.

[agasfas]

Interesting, I didn't know NASA sent out another probe. Though, I'm not surprised, they tend to do that a lot . I'm interested to see what results they find.

[soul alive]

i'm pretty excited about this probe mission, and have been since about 8th grade when the probe was launched. (the saturn probe, and titan probe are part of the same project). can't wait to see more pictures, especially in color... and more commentary would be nice.

the saturn probe is named Cassini for the man who 'discovered' and named the planet, and the Titan probe is Huygens named for another astronomer type, what he did though, i can't name off the top of my head.

[shooraijin]

Christiaan Huygens, a mathematician and astronomer who, among other things, discovered the true shape of the rings of Saturn.

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Huygens.html