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| Hear a robotic probe sing as it falls through the sky of Saturn’s moon Titan. |
This is a compilation of the Saturn hexagon movies released on Dec. 5, 2013.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. JPL manages the mission for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, Washington. The California Institute of Technology in Pasadena manages JPL for NASA. The VIMS team is based at the University of Arizona in Tucson.
For more information about the Cassini mission, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/cassini and http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/Hampton University and NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
Musical Descent to Titan
On unexplored worlds, the sound of science is a harmonious melody of chimes, clicks and mechanical whirrs. At least that’s how one scientist interpreted the January 2005 descent and landing of the European Space Agency’s Huygens probe on Titan. As the 700-pound probe parachuted to the surface, two onboard imaging instruments provided by NASA captured views of the moon’s cloud-filled atmosphere and dusty terrain. In total, about 3,500 images were collected and transmitted to Earth via Cassini, a spacecraft that ferried the probe to Titan and stayed within radio contact during the three-and-a-half-hour mission. Back on Earth, a time-lapse video was assembled from the images. As a bonus, a member of the instrument team added sounds to the video that represent the probe’s motion, transmission strength and its dual imaging instruments at work.
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| Huygens captured this aerial view of Titan from an altitude of 33,000 feet. |
credit:
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
Cover image courtesy of ESA/NASA/JPL
Video courtesy of ESA/NASA/JPL/University of Arizona/Erich Karkoschka
Titan image courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
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| Sunlight casts a ring around Titan in this nightside view of Saturn’s largest moon. |
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