Re: [esa_general] Stunning new images of Titan!

2005-01-17 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 06:13:09PM -0800, Mark Schnitzius wrote: I keep thinking what a shame it is that the best battery technology we could muster could still could This wasn't a radioisotope battery, obviously. It's a damn shame, the next probe may well get lost. only give us two hours

Fw: This Week in The Space Review - 2005 January 17

2005-01-17 Thread LARRY KLAES
- Original Message - From: Jeff Foust Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 2:13 AM Subject: This Week in The Space Review - 2005 January 17 [ If you no longer wish to receive announcements from The Space Review,please follow the instructions at the end of this message. ]Welcome to this

Fw: Latest News from the Astrobiology Magazine

2005-01-17 Thread LARRY KLAES
- Original Message - From: Astrobiology Magazine To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 5:32 AM Subject: Latest News from the Astrobiology Magazine It Came Out of the Skyhttp://www.astrobio.net/news/article1399.htmlIn this excerpt from the new Forward to the

Re: Surface of Titan in color / Scientists elated with quality of Huygens data

2005-01-17 Thread LARRY KLAES
I'm sure Hoagland is already on it. - Original Message - From: Michael Turner To: europa@klx.com Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 1:00 AM Subject: Re: Surface of Titan in color / Scientists elated with quality of Huygens data Hey, I see a face! It looks just

Re: [esa_general] Stunning new images of Titan!

2005-01-17 Thread Robert J. Bradbury
On Mon, 17 Jan 2005, Eugen Leitl wrote: On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 06:13:09PM -0800, Mark Schnitzius wrote: only give us two hours on the surface, and that was exceeding expectations. You want a problem that relates to Europa? There's a problem that relates to Europa. If politics

Re: [esa_general] Stunning new images of Titan!

2005-01-17 Thread Gary McMurtry
On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 06:13:09PM -0800, Mark Schnitzius wrote: I keep thinking what a shame it is that the best battery technology we could muster could still could This wasn't a radioisotope battery, obviously. It's a damn shame, the next probe may well get lost. only give us two hours on

Fw: [nh-announce] 17 January 2005 -- Natural Hazards Updates

2005-01-17 Thread LARRY KLAES
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 2:10 PM Subject: [nh-announce] 17 January 2005 -- Natural Hazards Updates The following sections were updated since 14 January 2005.-- UNIQUE IMAGERY (1 updated events, 1 new

Fw: [esa_general] Titan - view from 10 kilometres high

2005-01-17 Thread LARRY KLAES
- Original Message - From: ESA Portal News Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 11:32 AM Subject: [esa_general] Titan - view from 10 kilometres high This picture is a composite of 30 images from ESA's Huygens probe. They were taken from an altitude varying from 13 kilometres down to 8

Re: [esa_general] Stunning new images of Titan!

2005-01-17 Thread Michael Turner
I think one thing to keep in mind was that Huygens was a kind of long-shot sideshow for Cassini. It's piggybacked on something that wasn't a dedicated Titan mission. Huygens is already taking some hits for not really being stunning in its imagery. When I wrote that Huygens exceeded my

Excitement and puzzlement as Cornell views first Titan images

2005-01-17 Thread LARRY KLAES
http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/Jan05/Huygens.landing.deb.html Excitement and puzzlement as Cornell views first Titan images by Larry Klaes At 2:55 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 14, the first image of the surface of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, taken by the Cassini-Huygens space probe, was