A View from Huygens (Titan Moon Landing)

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A View from Huygens (Titan Moon Landing)

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Badass movie:
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/v ... 320-cc.mov

This movie was built with data collected during the 147-minute plunge through Titan's thick orange-brown atmosphere to a soft sandy riverbed by the European Space Agency's Huygens Descent Imager/Spectral Radiometer on Jan. 14, 2005,

In 4 minutes and 40 seconds, the movie shows what the probe 'saw' within the few hours of the descent and the landing. On approach, Titan appeared as just a little disk in the sky among the stars, but after landing, the probe's camera resolved little grains of sand millions of times smaller than Titan.
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what... no methane-breathing aliens?
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