This has just got to be the coolest stuff! I kept checking in all day yesterday to see when they would get some images from they Huygens probe. This site even has audio of the radar used in the landing of the probe!
http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Cassini-Huygens/index.html
Robin
Huygens Probe Photographs Cylindrical Object on Titan Surface
January 15, 2005
(Source: European Space Agency)
DARMSTADT, GERMANY. European Space Agency (ESA) and National Aeronatics and Space Administration (NASA) Jet Propulsion Laboratory announce today that the Huygens Probe has apparently photographed the first object that appears to have been made by an intelligent being from another world. The object is estimated to be approximately 58 cm in length and is resting on Titan’s strange surface which is believed to be a mixture of water and hydrocarbon ice. The Huygens probe will continue to examine the object using its onboard descent imager/spectral radiometer.
“It is not clear at this time how the object came to rest on Titan’s surface. It is extremely unlikely that an object of this precision could have been created through natural processes,” says Dr. Nigel Southmouth, Director of ESA’s scientific research team.
Based on the composition of the surrounding material, the cylindrical object seems to consist of some form of rare alloy, perhaps platinum or titanium.
“It is too early to hazard to guess at this time,” says Southmouth, “but we are hopeful to unravel our solar system’s most surprising mystery.”
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the Cassini-Huygens mission for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The Descent Imager/Spectral team is based at the University of Arizona, Tucson, Ariz.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.cfm .
Credit: ESAY/NOSA/Univ. of Arizonna
I love it!!!
Maybe that’s Cranberry’s missing Hohner.
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