Post by glactus on Oct 20, 2011 1:56:07 GMT
What is the greatest space achievement after the Apollo Moon series - The ESA Huygens probe landing on Titan.
Huygen's probe landing on Titan
Without a doubt the Huygens landing galvanized us all. While the Moon is only 250,000 miles away and the astronauts were aboard and controlled the Moon lander's decent, Cassini with Huygens on board was 800 million miles away, and before the decent to Titan, the controllers back on Earth took Cassini through the rings of Saturn to align the probe with Titan, an amazing feat on it's own.
Cassini at Saturn
Remember everything isn't standing still, indeed Saturn, Cassini and Titan were all whirling round and to make the precise calculations to sit Huygens on Titan where they did was an achievement indeed. Even now after all these years we still ask ourselves - how did they do it?.
Saturn from Titan
To see video of Huygens landing just click on the link below. Has sound
www.youtube.com/watch?v=--WCMl5C2p8
Credits: These are non copywrite images.
Special credit: The Cassini controllers at the jet Propulsion laboratory in Pasadena.
Text by Glactus
Video by Youtube.
Huygen's probe landing on Titan
Without a doubt the Huygens landing galvanized us all. While the Moon is only 250,000 miles away and the astronauts were aboard and controlled the Moon lander's decent, Cassini with Huygens on board was 800 million miles away, and before the decent to Titan, the controllers back on Earth took Cassini through the rings of Saturn to align the probe with Titan, an amazing feat on it's own.
Cassini at Saturn
Remember everything isn't standing still, indeed Saturn, Cassini and Titan were all whirling round and to make the precise calculations to sit Huygens on Titan where they did was an achievement indeed. Even now after all these years we still ask ourselves - how did they do it?.
Saturn from Titan
To see video of Huygens landing just click on the link below. Has sound
www.youtube.com/watch?v=--WCMl5C2p8
Credits: These are non copywrite images.
Special credit: The Cassini controllers at the jet Propulsion laboratory in Pasadena.
Text by Glactus
Video by Youtube.