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Cassini Probe Does Titan Flyby

Posted by michael on from the wave-for-the-camera dept.

EccentricAnomaly writes "Today, Cassini had its first close encounter with Titan around 8:30AM PDT. Data from the flyby will start coming down around 6:30PM PDT, and you can watch the pictures live on NASA TV. If you want higher resolution or just to stare at one picture for a while, the raw images will be put on the web right away, with pretty press images to follow the next day. And if you want to know about the observations planned for the flyby, you can read this PDF or watch this animation."

9 of 115 comments (clear)

  1. ObStarWars by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's no moon....

  2. CNN Story Link by Makoto916 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Here is a link to a CNN story that also has a nice video animation link of the event.

    Can't wait until Virgin Galactic offers rides out there! :)

  3. Re:4Gbit Solid State Recorders by Macphisto · · Score: 5, Funny
    Imagine if there were some downtimes when earth communication cannot be established for a couple of days...

    Good Lord, man! What in blazes are you planning?

  4. Re:4Gbit Solid State Recorders by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Bill G. said: "4Gbit Solid State Recorders should be enough for everybody."

  5. Bad idea. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    What would the aliens think if they get a peace offering of music, only to get sued by RIAA shortly thereafter?

  6. Re:The raw pictures will be put up right away? by mikael · · Score: 4, Funny

    What if they spy aliens? Won't that cause a little alarm amongst the general population?

    No, the central government of Titan have contingency plans to reassure the Titanian public that anything they see is merely a weather balloon, a stray asteroid or a reflection of Venus.

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  7. Re:Aliens by Timesprout · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well normally when pixar do the special effects for these missions there are no issues. I believe the faking effects for this mission have been outsourced to Bollywood due to budget constraints so please dont be alarmed if the mission actually turns out to be a love story between Cassini and Hygens and several hirsuite men in colourful outfits burst into a song and dance routine halfway through it.

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  8. Titanian? by commodoresloat · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yes but rumors will spread like wildfire on the Titanian internet. Which the Titanians will be browsing with their Apple Titanian powerbooks.....

  9. Holy Shit!!! by Thaidog · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's the death star! Red Alert!
    http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/gs2.cgi ?path=.. /multimedia/images/large-moons/images/image17.jpg& type=image

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