[ RadSafe ] Off topic but really neat video of landing on Titan

[John Jacobus]

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  Titan in pictures (May 9)
  http://physicsweb.org/article/news/10/5/5
   Have you ever wondered what it must have looked
like to be aboard the
   Huygens probe as it hurtled towards the surface of
Titan -- Saturn's
   largest moon -- in January last year? All is now
revealed with a highly
   realistic new movie of the dramatic descent,
released by the European
   Space Agency (ESA), NASA and the University of
Arizona. The movie shows
   the proble's plunge through Titan's thick
orange-brown atmosphere before
   landing on a soft, sandy riverbed. The film was put
together from data
   collected by the Descent Imager/Spectral Radiometer
(DISR) instrument
   during the probe's descent, which lasted 147
minutes.


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John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
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