Friday, January 14, 2005

Titan data from Huygens arrives

The spacecraft probe had still been transmitting data for over two hours after it had landed they confirmed.
"We are the first visitors to Titan," said an excited Jean-Jacques Dordain, director general of the European Space Agency (Esa).
It is also the furthest from Earth a spacecraft has ever been landed.
"In the morning we had an engineering success and this afternoon we can also say we have a scientific success," he added.
Scientists were now piecing together the data, images, measurements and sounds that was being beamed back to Earth.

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