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Amateurs Beat Space Agencies To Titan Pictures

Posted by timothy on from the decentralized dept.

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. Open Source... Space Research? by TiredGamer · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Is there nothing that can't be open-sourced? Talk about the power of hobbyists...

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  2. Crazy by eieken · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Maybe NASA should use all that extra cash to hire those guys.

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