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Originally Posted by Jerry
...Or did Huygens fall twice as fast as expected, and return half as many images because the mission had to be terminated early? The science teams could not image the scenario I have painted, so now I have to speculate again: Huygens fell fast, reaching the surface in half the expected time, but at ~200 meters, Huygens knew she was in trouble and completed the termination sequence early. Since everything was retransmitted, and they did not believe the radar - thought it was garbled, the ground troops think that they don't have a real time line...But they did recognize the sounds of the mission touch down sequence, and declared victory, simply guessing at the termination time. Possible?
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And now I have the PROOF! This rather large set of pictures is worth waiting for, if you have high speed: Look at the folder labeled "CAMTOP"
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Originally Posted by Jumpjack
I think I found the best source for titan images (Warning: 13 MB ZIP download!). The zip should (actually I don't know, I'm still downloading it... 8) )contain all the triplets, stored in separated files. |
The very first image in the folder is the pano, meaning panoramic. This was suppose to be the first picture taken after the final 3 meter parachute deployed at 110-140 kilometers, it is the panoramic picture, but it is the same picture as almost two thirds of the images recorded on on the surface of Titan: The most important set of orange pebbles ever photographed. You have to look at it carefully - My wife picked it out - the panarama was not a panarama because the camera could not spin on the tether - It was firmly on the surface of Titan.
When the Panorama Picture was taken, Huygens was already on the ground because the law of gravity is wrong. It took the probe on the order of one hour to completely traverse the atmosphere, The 30 meter parachute jettisoning the heat shield less than 200 meters above the surface. Huygens spent thirty eight seconds descending on the 10 meter parachute, then took the panaramic photograph that was suppose to be taken while swiveling on a parachute at 100 kilometers, and then took 400-600 pictures of the same rocks, because the camera logic said it was still descending.
A new era in physics will finally emerged =D> Thank you Huygens, thank you Cassini, no thank you, ESA administrators who are still mumbling about lost data, who did not know how to interpret the data, so they made a bad guess about the time Huygens hit the moon, and dampe the spirit about the marvelous performance of their wonderful craft! -
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