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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. infor8atiVe GoatGoat by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    writing is on t4e

  2. WTG idiots! Now we get no raw images any more. by Archeopteryx · · Score: 0, Troll

    The science involved in these images represents the careers of many people. They had a right to publish first. You took that right away from them. Do not expect raw images of important discoveries any more.

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  3. Let's be fair here... by Shadow+Wrought · · Score: -1, Troll

    Since NASA and ESI went to all the trouble to fake the landings and generate these hoax images, it's not too suprising that their already worn photo "processing" resources were stretched to thin to compete with fresh amateurs. Either that or they had to photoshop out the alien doing an Elvis impersonation into the Huygen's microphone.

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  4. This is another proof... by Spy+der+Mann · · Score: -1, Troll

    That open source works better than millions of dollars of investment in closed source.

    Thumbs up for pro-am's! :)