Similar to but more detailed than a previous sift. I particularly liked the transit view of earth and the view of Saturn's system that gives you an appreciation for the scale of even small parts of the solar system.
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This movie was built thanks to the data collected by ESA's Huygens Descent Imager/Spectral Radiometer (DISR) on 14 January 2005, during the 147-minutes plunge through Titan's thick orange-brown atmosphere to a soft sandy riverbed.In 4 minutes 40 seconds, the movie shows what the probe 'saw' within the few hours of the descent and the eventual landing. At first the Huygens camera just saw haze over the distant surface. The haze started to clear only at about 60 kilometers altitude, making it possible to resolve surface features as large as 100 meters. Only after landing could the probe's camera resolve little grains of sand millions and millions times smaller than Titan. The movie provides a glimpse on such a huge change of scale.credit: ESA/NASA/JPL/University of Arizonasource:
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA08118
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nanrodsays...*promote
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deathcowsays...They get these massively gorgeous pictures from the Cassini probe itself, but this Huygens bit seems like it was sent with a re-purposed viewmaster for the camera. I realize it's probably like a 1995 design. Still, I think, the best processing of the data I have seen yet? Huge vertical exageration on this one I think.
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