What Happenned to the New Pics of Titan?

[On the Road]

the European Space Agency was supposed to release them last Friday. Haven't heard a whisper on any of the sites, although they do say that much of the lost data has been recovered. Anyone seen more pics?

[7th_Sephiroth]

1. All these Worlds are yours

Ecept Titan. Make no attempts to land.

[GodlessBiker]

2. Wasn't that one of Jupiter's moons? Europa?

[7th_Sephiroth]

3. ummmmmm

ignore the monolith behind the curtain

[codswallop]

19. Zactly

Hal

[7th_Sephiroth]

20. hal and dave merged when they went into the monolith

read 3001

[BlueEyedSon]

4. They thought we weren't yet ready for the shot of all the aliens cavorting

near the ship.

[eleonora]

5. seriously

do you think we'd get fake pictures or edited pictures if intelligent life lived on there and was caught on pics? I do.

edited to add: but I don't believe in life on Titan lol, just saying.

[BlueEyedSon]

6. Whatever do you mean, I dated a girl from there! (photo enclosed)

[eleonora]

8. huuh, how much's the one-way flight?

:crazy:

[AllegroRondo]

7. Bush heard there's natural gas

the whole moon was sold to Haliburton

[Wilms]

9. This help?

<http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Cassini-Huygens/>

[On the Road]

10. I Guess That's It

but there don't seem to be any new pics that I recognize. There also seems to be plenty of room to sharpen and focus the existing pics. I just expected more from the announcement.

[Wilms]

12. A few days back, NASAWatch had a link.

It was a non-ESA/JPL group processing data into pictures. I can't find the link, now. Perhaps fish around NASAWatch.

[On the Road]

14. I Guess This Link Includes the New Pictures

Here

They just bear a remarkable similarity to the first wave of photos.

http://www.esa.int/export/images/HRICoastLineMoasic_S,0.jpg

[Wilms]

17. Ah. Try here.

<http://www.nasawatch.com/archives/2005/01/open_source_huy.html>

[On the Road]

18. Thank You!

That's exactly what I was looking for. Including a link to some amateur attempts at image processing:

http://anthony.liekens.net/huygens_static.html



I the range of pictures is pretty small because the probe was not mobile. The Mars rovers raised expectations.

[codswallop]

21. All the raw images are here:

http://esamultimedia.esa.int/docs/titanraw/index.htm

[BlueEyedSon]

11. Anyone know the lifespan of the probe?

[pmbryant]

13. a few hours, once on the surface

It's long dead by now.

--Peter

[BlueEyedSon]

15. So sad!

[Wilms]

16. Sort of sad.

It was designed for a short life. It may have even surpassed longevity expectations.