Huygens Images of Titan
There have been some amazing images of Saturn's moon Titan coming from the Huygens spacecraft. The really neat thing is that the best of them are not coming from the sponsors (European Space Agency -- ESA), they are coming from independent people downloading the raw image data. Glen at
Instapundit has the link: "
Open Source Processing of Huygens Images of Titan"
bq. While ESA slowly releases images from Huygens, full collections of Huygens imagery have already been processed and refined well beyond anything ESA has done - and you can download them yourself.
bq. See
Amateur compositions of the Huygens images for one spectacular example.
This mosaic shows the 'drainage systems' at Huygens landing site.
This panorama - in simulated colors, shows the location where Huygens landed from the air.
bq. If you scroll to the bottom of
this page you can download all of the raw images yourself.
bq. Why wait for ESA to get around to this - and have all the fun?
Here is one sample:
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Posted by DaveH at January 16, 2005 9:25 PM
