Astroblog: Titan: The Movie

Saturday, May 06, 2006

Titan: The Movie

Image Credit ESA/NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
Remember the thrilling pictures from the Hyugens Lander as it approached Titan's surface? Well, the clever people from the Hyugens mission have put together a stunning* Quicktime Video from the lander images. You can have a video with narration (15.4 Mb) which swoops down to the surface or a video where datasets are represented by chimes and clicks and the instrumentation results are displayed at the same time (11 Mb, it's rather charming).

Other Titan related news is that the moon appears to be covered in giant sand dunes composed of particle of ice and organics.

A tip of the hat to Nick Matzke of the Panda's Thumb for the heads up.

*Yes, I know I use "stunning" a lot, but these videos are definitely worthy of that appellation.

# posted by Ian Musgrave @ 6:44 pm

Comments:

I wish they'd offer bigger version. I can't make anything out in that data.

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Anonymous : 4:40 am

Yes, its a bit dissapointing. I can make out direction of fall and a few other things, but there is a lot of data that just doesn't come out. Which is a pity given they went to so much trouble.

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