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Friday, January 14, 2005

First Pictures From Huygens

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Right - The first close-up peek at Saturn's moon Titan. Huygens transmitted back its first packet of data Friday, including black and white images it captured as it neared the moon's surface.

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Left, via MSNBC - This first image from Titan's surface was captured by the Huygens lander's Descent Imager/Spectral Radiometer.


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There is no truth to the rumor that it also found the location of Howard Deans summer cottage.

Call me crazy, but that looks like liquid methane river.

I have some more at my place

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