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New Huygens Titan descent video available

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the check-it-out dept.

pamaru writes "Scientists from the Cassini/Huygens mission Descent Imager/Spectral Radiometer (DISR) team have released new Huygens video footage. "This descent animation lasting about 1 minute starts at an altitude of 300 km and moves eastward along the trajectory that the Huygens probe traveled on its journey to Titan's surface. The Cassini orbiter ISS, RADAR & VIMS images of this area are displayed in quick succession followed by DISR mosaics from increasingly lower altitudes. The surface color is approximately what a human observer riding along with the probe would see, if she or he could see the surface through Titan's atmospheric haze." This is cool stuff... grab it from the DISR homepage or from Coral Cache"

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  1. Information beyond just an AVI by Ford+Prefect · · Score: 4, Informative

    There are lots of images and videos with detailed descriptions over at the ESA site - similarly there's stuff over at the JPL website.

    It's all real imaging data, carefully stitched together and colorised (using real data again) - it's probably about as good results as they can possibly get. Titan's gone from being a strange, difficult-to-imagine world to being somewhere almost homely (near-Earth-like rolling hills and eroded valleys) - all thanks to this one little space probe...

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  2. Most interesting probe to date by Kranfer · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Personally, I think this probe that landed on Titan is one of the most interesting as far as Media content goes so far. I love these animals of the Radar working as the probe lands on the surface... very, very interesting. I am just hoping that the new Pulto Probe has some awesome media content once it gets there, and even the new MRO orbiting Mars. I love space... And Nasa has surprised me time and again with what they can do, especially with the rovers that have been running for 2 years on Mars. Amazing.

    The only thing I wish the Titan probe returned more of was pictures of the decent and more areas on the moon as it landed.

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  3. CoralCache doesn't help by Jim+Hall · · Score: 4, Informative

    Alas, downloading the AVI from CoralCache doesn't really help you. When you grab the AVI via the cache, it sends you to the original site (one presumes they don't cache movie files):

    $ wget http://www.lpl.arizona.edu.nyud.net:8090/DISR_data /Descent_On_Titan_1.avi
    --07:14:35-- http://www.lpl.arizona.edu.nyud.net:8090/DISR_data /Descent_On_Titan_1.avi
    => `Descent_On_Titan_1.avi'
    Resolving www.lpl.arizona.edu.nyud.net... 139.182.137.141, 169.229.50.5, 169.229.50.18
    Connecting to www.lpl.arizona.edu.nyud.net|139.182.137.141|:8090 ... connected.
    HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302
    Location: http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/DISR_data/Descent_On_Ti tan_1.avi?coral-no-serve [following]
    --07:14:36-- http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/DISR_data/Descent_On_Ti tan_1.avi?coral-no-serve
    => `Descent_On_Titan_1.avi?coral-no-serve'
    Resolving www.lpl.arizona.edu... 150.135.110.45
    Connecting to www.lpl.arizona.edu|150.135.110.45|:80... connected.
    HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
    Length: 276,597,248 (264M) [video/x-msvideo]

    Maybe it would help if I posted the link to Google video's copy. I think it's the same.

  4. descent video or smoke from server? by 192939495969798999 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think I was seeing smoke from the server for trying to download a /.'ed 200+ MB video file! Good job, people, let's all download a 200+ MB file. Any chance you could reduce that to around 5 MB and just show a clip?!

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    1. Re:descent video or smoke from server? by Sunburnt · · Score: 3, Funny

      Yeah...to borrow a phrase from dear old granny, "They can send a probe to Titan, but they can't build a /.-proof server?"

      Or something like that.

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  5. Re:Astronomy by mcsestretch · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Nothing says science like launching lumps of metal with sensors on them through atmosphere's..."

    Nothing says "post miserably failing to sound intellectually superior" like improper use of apostrophes.

    You suck at teh intarweb.

  6. torrent? by drinkypoo · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I doubt anyone viewing this story now can actually get the file in a timely fashion. Anyone have a torrent?

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  7. Re:Corrupt? by ClickOnThis · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yup -- I get the same result. The Google video copy (mentioned in an earlier post) works fine, though.

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  8. Mirror copies by Bamfarooni · · Score: 3, Informative

    Here's some mirrored copies

    http://www.mars.asu.edu/~gorelick/Descent_On_Titan _1.avi
    http://www.mars.asu.edu/~gorelick/Huygens_Movie.mp eg

    And another version with more information
    http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/archive/PIA08117. mov