[Gllug] OT: Huygens probe on the surface and still operating

[james at eccehomo.co.uk]

On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 06:46:50PM +0000, Richard Jones wrote:
> 
> No, I understand that.  I mean that in its brief life it was supposed
> to have taken several hundred photographs.  But even including
[..]

> Rich.
> 

It should have taken ~700, but as one data channel failed, they only received ~350 AFAIK. But you're right, it is odd.  Maybe it's the ESA's institutional slowness: NASA are far far better at PR, to the great frustration of the ESA scientists. (I think Oliver Morton has some stuff to say about this in http://mainlymartian.blogs.com/semijournal/ )

James.
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