Huygens Down Safe, Pictures To Come Here

January 14, 2005 | Astronomy, Science | By: Mark VandeWettering

The ESA is reporting that the Huygens lander survived it’s descent to Titan, and is transmitting data. According to JPL, the first images should be received around 11:45 PST. Kick ass! As soon as pictures are available, I’ll link ’em up here.

First Huygens Image, snapped from NASA TV in RealPlayerUpdate: In what quite possibly have been the singularly most dull and boring press conference ever convened, a single image taken from 16km was released on NASA TV, followed by ten minutes of people talking about their feelings. Sigh. I’ll post a link to the real image when I find it: this was screen snapped from the RealPlayer stream on NASA TV.

Not much to see here, other than the fairly obvious rivulets which suggest erosion processes. I’ll post more when I’ve got more.