We landed on Titan!

by **Chacal** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 2:07 am

First images are in.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/main/index.html

by **SavageParrot** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 5:09 am

I love the fact that they make a big deal about the first 'colour' view when all it is is monocrome brown. Hell I could have done that to a black and white photo

. If you haven't yet seen it, its brown and yes it's rocky, contain your surprise please...

Pretty cool all the same

by **CodeRed68** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 9:46 am

I am still amazed that we can blast a rocket into the sky, with all that force, and then have the technology to have a spacecraft fly itself to a distant planet, and have a probe land on it's moon. All remotely controlled from millions of miles away. Amazing.

by **SavageParrot** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 10:06 am

Almost as amazing as the flapping flag on the moon. A light breeze with no atmosphere, incredible!

by **CodeRed68** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 10:42 am

Originally posted by SavageParrot
Almost as amazing as the flapping flag on the moon. A light breeze with no atmosphere, incredible!

...so i take it you believe in the conspiracy that the US never landed? LOL
I have seen stuff on that. Personally, I think the mission is too huge and involved probably a hundred thousand employees working for thousands of contractors for NASA to pull off something like that without people finding out.

by **Wairudo Enjin** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 1:26 pm

The world is flat you know!

by **Sayntfuu** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 3:01 pm

Originally posted by SavageParrot
Almost as amazing as the flapping flag on the moon. A light breeze with no atmosphere, incredible!

Did you put on your tin foil hat this morning?

I mean really.

I got goose bumps from the first pictures. I mean this is a world with a coastline and a river delta!!!

The next day some sounds were released that were recorded on the way down. It was very cool to listen to winds on another planet. We are so close to being a space race. So very close.

Hear's to the dream. :beer:

fuu

by **SavageParrot** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 3:07 pm

Originally posted by Wairudo Enjin
The world is flat you know!

And shaped like a bagel

by **DocTrebor** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 3:38 pm

Originally posted by CodeRed68
I am still amazed that we can blast a rocket into the sky, with all that force, and then have the technology to have a spacecraft fly itself to a distant planet, and have a probe land on it's moon. All remotely controlled from millions of miles away. Amazing.

But it still takes forever to get through the effin DMV :rant:

by **ShipWreck** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 4:19 pm

^^^ haha thats right.. whats up with that is like If u took Nyquil and No-Doz at the same time, would u dream that u couldn't sleep? crazy :/

by **deathBOB** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 11:20 pm

I thought they used a top cross bar to hold the flag up on the moon... Huygens is an incredible achievement considering it was launched so long ago...

We landed on Titan!

We landed on Titan!

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