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Originally Posted by Taibak
Ummm... no. Not even close. If you had done any actual research on the probe, you would have found out that one of the two communications channels had failed due to a programming error. As such, ESA had only received half of the total amount of data they were expecting. They received all the important bits because most of the data was set to be broadcast on both channels. That has absolutely nothing to do with the probe's rate of descent.
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I wish that were true, but if you look in the reference I posted above, you will fine the full thousand images - True 650 of them are on the ground, but that is because Huygens spent twice as much of the allotted time for the mission sitting on the ground as she did in the air.
I do not understand the mentality of the ESA - I can understand why they might be embarrassed and confused - but they must be honest.
And for any of you conspiracy theorists out there: This is why you are wrong: No agency with any depth or size can pull off a misdirection of the truth of any magnitude - the ground-based Doppler data will prove this in spades, just as the panoramic pictures of the ground, that were suppose to be taken just after the last parachute deployed at ~100km, and the Doppler data historically recording this sequence live - already have.