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Cassini's Huygens Probe Rendezvous with Titan

Posted by michael on from the bomb's-away dept.

im333mfg writes "Tonight at 7:08pm PST, the Cassini spacecraft will be releasing the much anticipated Huygens Probe for a rendezvous with the Saturn moon Titan. It will be making a 22 day journey to the moon, and end up entering the atmosphere sometime on January 14th. 'Titan is one of the remaining puzzles of the solar system - while Cassini's imaging cameras and radar instrument have begun to reveal the details of its surface, the Huygens probe will be the first spacecraft to venture beneath Titan's thick clouds.'"

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  1. Re:Slow down cowboy ! by elzurawka · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    true....how can u know for sure what happend 5 billion years ago, its all hypothesis, i dont c anyone with a time machine who can go back and confirm these theorys....

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    -EL
  2. Re:When is "7:08pm PST"? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Blow me. The only country that counts is the US and maybe a few others that are halfway decent like Australia. We launched the fucking thing, asshole. Figure out what time it is based on the 4 main US time zones: Eastern, Central, Mountain, and Pacific.

    If you want "international" everything, tell your leaders and insductry to get a clue and develop some technology, and use it, instead of sucking off us for scientific knowledge. Where do you think this board is hosted, and who thought it up? Where did the 'net come from, anyway, Iran? France? Ever heard of DARPA?

    Even the yellow peril fucking gook Communist Chinese have managed to launch a manned rocket!