Posted on Apr 19, 2019
What Huygens Saw On Titan - New Image Processing
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Space Probe, "Huygen's" Mission
Huygens was, in effect, a passenger on the Cassini - Huygens spacecraft!
The Cassini–Huygens mission, commonly called Cassini, was a collaboration between NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Italian Space Agency (ASI) to send a probe to study the planet Saturn and its system, including its rings and natural satellites.
Cassini was the Saturnian Orbiter. The Huygens probe was nestled in its descent module. Image Credit and Copyright: European Space Agency. Huygens was designed to land on Saturn's largest moon, TITAN.
"The European Space Agency's Huygens Probe was a unique, advanced spacecraft and a crucial part of the overall Cassini mission to explore Saturn. The probe was about 9 feet wide (2.7 meters) and weighed roughly 700 pounds (318 kilograms). It was built like a shellfish: a hard shell protected its delicate interior from high temperatures during the a two hour and 27 minute descent through the atmosphere of Saturn's giant moon Titan."
"Titan is the largest moon of Saturn and the second-largest natural satellite in the Solar System. It is the only moon known to have a dense atmosphere, and the only object in space, other than Earth, where clear evidence of stable bodies of surface liquid has been found. Wikipedia
View on Maps: google.com/maps/space/titan
Radius: 1,599.9 mi
Gravity: 1.352 m/s²
Surface area: 8.3×107 km2 (0.163 Earths) (2.188 Moons)
Surface pressure: 146.7 kPa (1.45 atm)
Did you know: Titan is the only moon in the Solar System that has a planet-like atmosphere and clouds. softschools.com"
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Space Probe, "Huygen's" Mission
Huygens was, in effect, a passenger on the Cassini - Huygens spacecraft!
The Cassini–Huygens mission, commonly called Cassini, was a collaboration between NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Italian Space Agency (ASI) to send a probe to study the planet Saturn and its system, including its rings and natural satellites.
Cassini was the Saturnian Orbiter. The Huygens probe was nestled in its descent module. Image Credit and Copyright: European Space Agency. Huygens was designed to land on Saturn's largest moon, TITAN.
"The European Space Agency's Huygens Probe was a unique, advanced spacecraft and a crucial part of the overall Cassini mission to explore Saturn. The probe was about 9 feet wide (2.7 meters) and weighed roughly 700 pounds (318 kilograms). It was built like a shellfish: a hard shell protected its delicate interior from high temperatures during the a two hour and 27 minute descent through the atmosphere of Saturn's giant moon Titan."
"Titan is the largest moon of Saturn and the second-largest natural satellite in the Solar System. It is the only moon known to have a dense atmosphere, and the only object in space, other than Earth, where clear evidence of stable bodies of surface liquid has been found. Wikipedia
View on Maps: google.com/maps/space/titan
Radius: 1,599.9 mi
Gravity: 1.352 m/s²
Surface area: 8.3×107 km2 (0.163 Earths) (2.188 Moons)
Surface pressure: 146.7 kPa (1.45 atm)
Did you know: Titan is the only moon in the Solar System that has a planet-like atmosphere and clouds. softschools.com"
Watch in Full Screen and Sound Up for the best Video and Sound presentation experience.
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We certainly are LTC Greg Henning!!! One does not really understand it until one examines the comparable distances from our Sun to the Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Pluto, Alpha Centauri, The Andromeda Galaxy and more... We go from Miles to Astronomical Units (AU's), to light years, to parsecs and kilo parsecs, mega parsecs ad nauseum... We on planet Earth are but a dot in the Universe!
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It was a video of the Huygens Probe landing on Saturn's Moon TItan PO1 William "Chip" Nagel. I hope you watched it, Bill.
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel - You will find it awesome when you watch it break through Titan's thick atmosphere and land! (As a moon, Titan orbits around the gas giant Saturn which is the second largest planet in the Solar System. The mean distance of both bodies from the Sun is about 1.4 billion km, almost 10 times as far from the Sun as Earth.)
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