Re: Huygens landing.

From: Henry Spencer (henry_at_spsystems.net)
Date: 06/29/04 

Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 14:07:37 GMT

In article <Xns9516E7DB612F9kensuhotmailcom@207.115.63.158>,
Chris Schumacher <kensu__@hotmail.com> wrote:
>I was wondering if Huygens is actually going to land on Titan, or is simply
>going to crash into it, a la the Ranger series?

It will make a relatively slow descent under a parachute. It's primarily
an atmosphere probe, with landing very much a secondary issue, but it will
*probably* survive touchdown/splashdown and report briefly from the surface.

>And speaking of which, all of Cassini's images seem to be in monochrome.
>Doesn't it have a color camera as well?

It's got the standard spacecraft setup: a monochrome camera with a filter
wheel in front of it, so it can shoot color images by doing multiple shots
with different filters. As with most such cameras, it doesn't actually do
color images unless there's specific reason, since they produce three times
as much data and then have to be combined and color-corrected. 

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                                -- George Herbert       | henry@spsystems.net

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