Touchdown!
The Cassini/Huygens probe has reached Titan and is sending back pictures. Cool news!
CNN correspondent Miles O’Brien has an in-house blog covering the event (though someone needs to make sure his boss knows he isn’t running a Web-hosting service there) that’s worth reading.
YOu can get some of the first photos via the ESA website or from the NASA JPL website.
They are, when you think about it, awesome to contemplate. We have managed to send a spacecraft millions of miles to land on a planetary body. We essentially aimed this craft like a bullet from a gun, using our knowlege of momentum and gravity, to hit Titan. The craft was able to send photos and telemetry information the whole way (basically, we kept a running conversation with an unmanned craft over millions of miles). And now we can look at images taken from the surface of an alien world.
It’s also nice to know that the probe wasn’t swarmed by tentacled aliens with ray guns who want our women. That’s a bonus.
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