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

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On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Richard Jones whispered secretively:
> http://spaceflightnow.com/cassini/status.html
> 
> Apparently it's still operating from the surface, which must be good
> news.

It operated for *two hours* and transmitted so strongly that terrestrial
stations could tell that data was flowing without need for the Cassini
relay at all! (They still needed the relay to tell what the data *was*,
though.)

Amazingly successful all around, I'd say.

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