Is There A Signature Cd Onboard Huygens? - Unmanned Spaceflight.com

Is There A Signature Cd Onboard Huygens?

Options

Horsell_Common View Member Profile	Jun 16 2004, 05:15 PM Post #1
Newbie Group: Members Posts: 8 Joined: 16-June 04 Member No.: 83	I vaguely remember that prior to the Cassini-lauch it was possible to enter signatures on the website www.huygens.com which were supposed to be put on a CD onboard the Huygens probe. The site www.huygens.com is gone, so there is no chance to have a look at the content of the disk (unlike the Mars rover DVDs, where you can still go and browse the names and even print certificates). Does anybody know for sure whether this CD has actually been placed on board the spacecraft? Or was it just a publicity stunt?

Replies

Horsell_Common View Member Profile	Dec 24 2004, 09:52 AM Post #2
Newbie Group: Members Posts: 8 Joined: 16-June 04 Member No.: 83	The signatures and drawings on the Huygens CD are now online. They can be found at: http://television.esa.int/Huygens/index.cfm If you have submitted a message or an image you can enter your name and find what you have send out into space years ago. Unfortunately I found no way to browse the whole list, but if you enter a common family name, you can always find some interesting results.

ljk4-1 View Member Profile	Nov 15 2005, 06:41 PM Post #3
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430	The same CD-ROM contains four pop songs, composed by French musicians Julien Civange and Louis Haéri. More about this project at: http://www.music2titan.com A news item on the Titan music here: http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1248542.htm A music album inspired by the Cassini-Huygens mission can be viewed here: http://www.laibach.nsk.si/titan.htm -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined, and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853

Posts in this topic

Horsell_Common Is There A Signature Cd Onboard Huygens? Jun 16 2004, 05:15 PM

djellison It's onboard Cassini - and my signature's ... Jun 16 2004, 06:07 PM

keithwilson Huygens has a CD onboard as well. ESA ran a publi... Jul 7 2004, 09:23 PM

Horsell_Common The signatures and drawings on the Huygens CD are ... Dec 24 2004, 09:52 AM

ljk4-1 The same CD-ROM contains four pop songs, composed ... Nov 15 2005, 06:41 PM

Display Mode: Switch to: Standard · Switch to: Linear+ · Outline

Time is now: 15th December 2024 - 10:09 PM