Little to no benefit because the camera doesnt move. To do super res imaging on mars - they bump the camera around a tiny bit

Oh - and it parachuted all the way to the surface

Doug

Well - you CAN - just not right now.

Doug

From the BBC program - about 95% repeat from last nights program, 4% the images we've already seen,

The probe is resting at about 12 degrees from Horez - perhaps resting on one of the little pebbles.

Temperature profile - similar to the earth - there's a minimum temp at altitude of -200 deg c - and warm up by about 20 degrees on the ground

Sonar - evidence of echos at height - possibly clouds laden with liquid -

And that's it

Doug

iirc - Huygens couldnt be tested whilst bolted to the side of Cassini because the lack of dopler would put the two out of tune

But - they did test the Huygens Relay equipment by transmitting a simulated huygens signal which cassini sucefully recorded and relayed back.

Doug

I will be watching and will transcribe any cool-ness. They showed the impactor force graph on the program last night - might be something new and cool today

Doug

Nasa didnt even wait for that Press Conf to finish. They got bored of people talking about the first ever science data from the surface of titan - and cut to some B-Roll of people installing RCC onto a Shuttle.

Nice one

Doug

well - bits of ice - or bubble or whatever - but twice, something flows thru the scene without doubt.

Doug

It's landed in a bloody STREAM

Watch this carefully

http://www.mars.asu.edu/~gorelick/huygens1.gif


Doug

I think the problem with Europe is that we're happy to work on something together - BUT - we want OUR credit at the end of it - congratulations not as 'europe' but for each member nation.

With MER - you can just go "well done america, now here's some pictures"

Doug

I'm looking at the penetrometer data graph -

They think it was a clay, or a wet sand or a snow - with a bit of a crust on the top (Creme Brulle)

Doug

And lets be honest - we're just impatient - we've waiting 7 years for this - another 48 hours isnt going to kill anyone

Doug

11:38:11 GMT was the Impact timeaccording to the SSP

The SSP wokred fine - all 8 instruments got data

I'm not sure what the hell was going on with the Images - but the practice of a news conference that tells you nothing and includes back slapping and metaphors is certainly not an ESA invetion

That 7th image from the end is just very very VERY like a shoreline, with waves

I thikn we're missing some images from that massive set ( which I got all of ) - as there are two sets of 3 or 4 images that show that coastal feature really well Hopefully the imaging team will focus in on that when they put stuff together for a conference tomorrow

Doug

Well - I got the lot - and there's about - ooo - 150 images from the surface - you know I'm sure you can see the lamp getting dimmer as time progresses

Anyhoo - as someone suggest - I've tried to super-res the surface image from the 150 images taken. sadly - they orig.s were hiddeously jpg'd

but



compared to



Little difference really.

Doug

link from wherever - no probs

just no /.ing - if i get /.'ed - the place will die.

Doug

Is it feasable that it landed in a small puddle?



That bottom image looks a lot like a shallow puddle - with something sort of sandy in the bottom and pebbles in it - with a torch held next to it

Doug

I'm just going to go "wtf" for a while

One part of this looks like a a river catchment area starting at a coastline and working inward...



And another part - just a little further down the coast ( we drifted along this costal feature - we have views from both sides of it )

We have amore classical river channel



I will keep saying WTF till we have a follow on misison

Doug

Yeah - a thick atmosphere might give a slight bit of motion to the image - perhaps super -res imaging on it

Doug

From John Zarniki (sorry about the spelling)

3 hrs 27 mins and 26 second data in all

1hr 10 minues of data from the surface of titan

Doug

Looks like the bastard love child of Venus and Mars

doug

I was the same. It sent shivers down my spine - it was just beyond anything i could possiblt have imagined.

Doug

Consider it like MER. As I see it - you'd have lost the Lion King panorama, and the Endureance Pan Point A Panorama, but the Mission Succes Panorama, the first Endurance Panorama and the Burns Cliff panorama are ok

Doug

Is the A-channel totally borked - is itt just a bit screwey and thus potential for recovery

Doug

the scale on that thing is actually fairly huge. It's something like 50km per square. - the purple '50km' shape is about 300km across

Doug

the very local terrain looks very navigable - I wonder if the valley is navigable - nice easy highroad to the peak

Doug