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Amateurs Beat Space Agencies To Titan Pictures

loconet writes "Nature.com is reporting that a group of enthusiastic amateurs managed to process raw images of Titan from the Huygens probe faster that any of the giant space agencies in charge of the mission. Terragen, a freeware program that converts the basic brightness data in aerial pictures into a topographical map, to generate the ground-level vista was used."

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  1. Something is wrong here. by Fecal+Troll+Matter · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    If any motherfucker in Long Island attempts to attack me with a fucking baseball bat, i'll shove it up his ass.