Not to mention a great source of titanium!
Hmmmm. If I plug my laptop into some decent speakers, I think I can hear slight variations in the whooshing sound that could maybe be changes in wind-speed or direction. I also feel like I can hear a quiet, periodic, dull, somewhat metallic sound in the background, almost like someone was gently rapping their finger against the side of Huygens at regular intervals. Maybe it’s just an artifact, or maybe the instruments aboard Huygens are actually making this noise, and the microphone picked it up.
It’s damn cool, whatever it is. The fact I’m actually hearing realistic sound from another planet (well, moon) makes me tingly!
That would be if they were on Mars, koeeoaddi – maybe Salo will get his missing part at last!
Did the sound receivers pick up the cries of the blue birds?
:smack:
Well, it has been over 30 years since I read the thing.
Are you sure it was Mars? Now that I think about it, wasn’t it Mercury?
And this surprises anyone? 
Well, they had to edit out all the mind-controlling slug-like alien monsters.
:smack: yes it was Mercury!
I blame the localised chrono-synclastic infundibulum.
I ought to know better, being at the U of Delaware at the moment – Vonnegut donated many, many original manuscripts to our rare book collection, and I have been reading his stuff since I was a kid.
For some reason this won’t play on Winamp 2.x. 
All glory to the Hypno-Toad!!
No-no-no! Not you, Hypnotoad!
The other Hypno-Toad! 
I got a message that I’m not allowed to use that board. I’ll just thank my luck stars.
A big ass mosaic put together by a spaceflight fanatic can be found here. It looks like satellite imagery of the Amazon river basin cept it’s on Titan.
Thanks for the link.
So, do we call this hydrology, even though it’s methane causing the erosion?
I’d imagine so, since methane is a hydrocarbon.
Interesting image. Wonder what the explaination for how that rock formation developed is going to be?
Hm, they’re saying they lost one data channel.
Is it just me or do I recall the duplicate data channels would all be sending back the same information for redundancy? Why would the loss of one change anything with the data from the mission?
Yeah, there’s some redundancy built into the system, so as far as the images go, it’s not a total loss, since there was some overlap of the pictures. However, some of the scientific data was totally lost. All because of a coding glitch.
Interesting animated gif of some of the shots. If you look closely, you can see what appears to be a snowflake drifting past the lens.
BUGGERRIT! MILLENIUM HAND & SHRIMP!
Also :eek: .
Don’t do that, Tuck!