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Originally Posted by Jerry
This Spacenews image photo mosaic (scroll down the page to the Huygens full Landing Site Mosaic and enlarge it), I took it around and showed it to more than a dozen rocket scientists:
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If I held the image a ways away from them, made them focus on the scene from a distance and I said "check out this Blast Crater", they could immediately see the pattern of a round object colliding with a flat, dry hardened surface. They are familiar with this type of image. They could see the rounded, slightly oblong pattern of a heat shield plowing into the surface, raining charred ablative material to the sides, and spreading stress cracks along the edges. |
Due to the way the images were taken and assembled, you'll alwyas get a circular imprssion, no matter what you photographed. And showing blast crater experts an image and ask them for comments on the blast crater will surely make them seeing a blast crater. That's a Rorschach-test with suggestions and not science. If you would have shown it to some art-critics and ask them for comments on this recently discovered painting by Jackson Pollock, not one of them would go into lengths about blast craters.
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The parachute(s) then fell about Huygens, and a lot of 'foggy' images were photographed during this sequence. The parachute ended up slightly bunched against one of the legs, clearly visible in a long series of ground shots draping over the bottom cameras lense.
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Huygens has no legs. It was not designed for landing. It was just the way that the impact parameters made it a possibility that Huygens may survive it, as it did.
C'mon Jerry, give it a break and stop beating a dead horse that had never lived.