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January 15, 2005
More Images from Titan
I don't have time to make a post right now, but they are going to be releasing new images from Titan all day so I'll post them here as they release them.
NOTE: Images are getting bigger as they crunch the data, so you may have to wait a bit for them to load.
A boundary between high, lighter-coloured terrain and and darker lowland area on Titan.
Raw image of Titan's surface with scale captions added
First colour view of Titan's surface
Composite of Titan's surface seen during descent
Images Courtesy NASA/ESA
I've posted sounds from Space before, but here is the Audio from the Huygens' descent. Keep in mind this is a composite of the sounds heard by the probe's orbiter, so the audio levels vary. Essentially though, you're listening to the weather around the probe and the air passing by it as it descends. Here is the Radar Echo conversion of Huygens descent. The earlier returns are radar waves bouncing off cloud formations and strong wind/weather bands in the distance, as the clip continues, you begin to get ground echos leading up to touchdown.
Audio Courtesy ESA.
You can also visit the ESA Gallery page, but with the heavy traffic it may be hard to download the new images.
Posted by JasonColeman at January 15, 2005 11:27 AM
