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Looks pretty Mars-like to me, but that could just be the artificial colour.

So does NASA need all the little cute noises and blinking lights to keep there attention?

I don't think it's mars. The terrain looks totally different but the color is dead on.

very interesting interface...probably unusual enough for most people to get confused and skip this clip without really seeing what is going on.

the sounds and the color highlights are mostly likely there to help emphasize where the data is coming from and how often the updates are received.

ze zounds are explained here http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/news/press-release-details.cfm?newsID=655

This is simply amazing. The conveyance of data via sound is just genius, and so is the visual reconstruction. This made me very happy.

it almost sounds like its crying in a really screwed up fun house. still very beautiful view of the console and all the weird stats flying up on screen

This deserves far more votes then this... *promote

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Here's something I REALLY don't understand. Why can't NASA place a REALLY good digital video camera on board, with internal memory that records the descent and or the touchdown site after the probe has landed? You know.. something with REAL colors, and at least 30FPS (I'm not even gonna say HD image quality, because that would be pushing it).
I know that the data transfers must be really slow between the probe and earth, so a video or picture takes a long time. But if the camera could have several gig's of internal memory (and let's face it... how big would a camera really be with the technology they must have access to?)
And records to the internal memory, and after it stops recording, it starts trasfering the data. Even if it takes days to download a 1gb video, I'm sure it would beat these really crappy images.
I know I'm being stupid... but does any of you know why something like that is never done?

The constant wine you hear is the connection strength (Bottom right corner line). so when it dies its over. Mainly because of the atmosphere that's why not to mention its Saturn's moon not the moon. The connection died after about what 44 seconds. Even the best of the 4g wireless cant do that. It was launched on October 15, 1997 and got in orbit of Saturn's moon Titan on July 1, 2004 and the probe was dropped January 14, 2005 and lasted on the surface a total of 44 seconds before connection loss. They drop probes like this before they land rovers if ever. It takes 2 years to get to Mars by the way and yes the ultra high res camera's they have on that have sent back a ton of great pic's and some small video. And there was no colour change mentioned by NASA for this video.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassini-Huygens
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_%28moon%29

Can everyone please stop saying NASA... it was a joint NASA, ESA and ASI mission.

that is awesome!! love the sounds.

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this is fantastic. the obsessive-compulsive in me was getting twitchy waiting for that upper right chunk to fill in.

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nice spelling jonny

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I can't believe that I'm the only one who noticed the footprints at the end, Far left picture!

Is that the moon landing????

the man doesn't know his left from his right.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_%28moon%29

there are many factors why the images are low quality, they where designed in the early 90's. low power consumption requirements and atmospheric conditions too. it's like a billion km away.

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Why don't they just show us the ACTUAL FOOTAGE from NASA instead of this lame fake edited overlay? *gay

>> ^jwray:
Why don't they just show us the ACTUAL FOOTAGE from NASA instead of this lame fake edited overlay? gay


Aliens, man. Aliens.

>> ^Peroxide:
I can't believe that I'm the only one who noticed the footprints at the end, Far left picture!
Is that the moon landing????


(Two years later)

Yes, it's a shot of the moon landing alongside the final images to demonstrate scale and distance of the picture.

>> ^jwray:
Why don't they just show us the ACTUAL FOOTAGE from NASA instead of this lame fake edited overlay? gay


I take it from watching the video that there is no such thing as "actual footage" in the way you seem to be implying. The probe is spinning and gyrating so wildly any video feed, if it were plausible to even send a video feed, would be completely useless. The probe was snapping small slices of pictures and keeping track of its orientation, and out of that data the final "landscape" was constructed as you see there.

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