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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:discuss this on irc by WizardRahl · · Score: 5, Funny

    * Now talking in #space
    * Topic is 'Please keep the JPLers killed or injured in (DEC 8th) car accident in your thoughts and prayers. Please see http://tinyurl.com/63d7h for details. The Opportunity publications from Science magazine are available at http://homepage.mac.com/yuriwho/op1.pdf through op15.pdf'
    * Set by SOC-Pandelirium on Thu Dec 16 03:55:52
    -ChanServ- [#space] Welcome to space.
    -Huygens- WizardRahl: Welcome to #space, make yourself comfortable... Type !countdown for the next Cassini-Huygens encounter. Type !recap for a recap of channel activity. Other channels of interest: #space_politics #Spaceshipone #xprize . Web sites of interest: http://foxcheck.org . This is a Family Oriented Channel. Swearing is not tolerated.
    <WizardRahl> who play's jean luc's character in star trek TNG?
    <WizardRahl> anyone know?
    <DanTekGeek> oh god
    <DanTekGeek> i know
    <DanTekGeek> um
    <DanTekGeek> PATRICK STUART!
    <DanTekGeek> thats it
    <DEChengst> Steward ?\
    <DEChengst> tea, earl grey, hot !
    <yuriwho-ha> make it so!