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Cassini Huygens Probe is Ready for Separation

Posted by michael on from the breaking-up-is-hard-to-do dept.

Lucas.clemente writes "According to The Register, the Huygens probe has been given a clean bill of health and is ready for separation. The probe will enter the atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan sometime around Christmas, and is expected to give us some of the most Alien landscape pictures ever taken."

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  1. How will the descent go...? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Let's hope they didn't install the orientation sensor upside-down!

    (this is a reference to that particle-collecting probe that came back to earth and smashed instead of opening its chutes)

  2. Separation Anxiety? by yabbo · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think we need to be supportive for the Cassini craft, in this time of great sadness. Nobody likes to see their only probe leave the nest so early, let's pray that little Huygens has a safe journey.

  3. Autographed photo? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    These awards will be made within 30 days following the return of the actual Titan image data, and will each consist of a framed and autographed Huygens photo of the Titan landscape.

    Who will autograph that photo? Huygens himself?

  4. Re:Visible from Earth?? by Ayaress · · Score: 3, Funny

    They said it "might" be visible if you have a "decent" telescope. Is it their fault that nobody's invented a decent telescope yet?