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Maybe it's a good thing I'm *not* employed as a scientist.
This way I can butcher the pictures.

Here is the link to the Enceladus image I cooked up to bring out all those surface features instead of that drab grey.
Enceladus Feature Contrast

"..., I would like deep-penetrating radar"

I'd like to see a permanent orbiter that can map out the moon in detail first.
Select a target for something similar to "comet busting".
Then drop several probes into prime targets.
Further, lets put some robotics onboard these probes.

Look at the heavy equipment used in the Huygens probe.
Albeit its great for durability, there has to be a more compact way to design the connectors.

Look at these pictures:
Huygens Internals
Huygens RS232 Connectors

Surely you can save space and weight with a more efficient connector than an RS232 jacket.

Look at how compact electronic devices are.
Get Sony to help with development.

Be good for some advertising I'd think.

"..., I would like deep-penetrating radar"

I'd like to see a permanent orbiter that can map out the moon in detail first.
Select a target for something similar to "comet busting".
Then drop several probes into prime targets.
Further, lets put some robotics onboard these probes.

Look at the heavy equipment used in the Huygens probe.
Albeit its great for durability, there has to be a more compact way to design the connectors.

Look at these pictures:
Huygens Internals
Huygens RS232 Connectors

Surely you can save space and weight with a more efficient connector than an RS232 jacket.

Look at how compact electronic devices are.
Get Sony to help with development.

Be good for some advertising I'd think.

To make things easier, here is a reconstruction with instruction.

Just sit back about 2 feet from the monitor and try to cross your eyes till you get something similar to the bottom group.

If there is a good response to this, I'll do the others.
Otherwise, you may be able to do them on your own after training with this:
Stereo Image of Titan with Training bars

Just to clarify, the "command" to turn "on" the oscillator for Channel A was not sent due to human error.
So that equates to no data sent to Earth from Cassini for that Channel which contains the wind data and half of the photos.
Channel B does not have a similar oscillator so it did not suffer from the same problem.

So my question is, what data did they get, (or could get potentially)?
Sounds like the photos will be lost because all they seem to have accomplished with the global radar conglomerate was a measurement of Huygens's Doppler shifting carrier wave signal.

This is probably not as accurate as the direct measurements but will give us a replay of the descent to within 1km thanks to some correlation to VLBI measurements taken on Earth also.

There is a heated debate between project teams going on in the background as to exactly where the probe landed.
So this data should do well to help pinpoint the location.

Because, I made up a collage, Titan's Huygens Collage

I'm interested in seeing more images. Knowing wind speeds is good data, but personally I'd much rather have more photos for my collage. :) Lager version at spacescience.ca

This page has some raw images from the Huygens probe descent onto Titan:

http://spacescience.ca/titan/raw/

This page has the images in more of a gallery format:

http://mars.lyle.org/titan/file1.html

It should be interesting to try doing different sorts of processing on them, like panoramas, contrast-corrected animations, etc. The individual images are triplets, composed of the three camera views.

Its all just smoke and mirrors.

I'm sure there may not be many anomalies between us and 9800ly, however, it would be smart to keep an open mind about the possibility.

Sounds like they are making some progress ;
"With close stars, scientists can calculate stellar sizes from their temperatures and luminosities."

So does this formula not work for distances beyond say 1,000,000ly?
Where is the transition and why?

01/14/04 Blog 4: -- You Are Here -- SpaceCanada.org