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

Ian Norton ianort at essex.ac.uk
Mon Jan 17 19:24:28 UTC 2005


On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 06:46:50PM +0000, Richard Jones wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 06:54:05PM +0000, Ian Norton wrote:
> > afaik the huygens lander was only designed to operate for 3hrs on the
> > surface
> [...]
> 
> No, I understand that.  I mean that in its brief life it was supposed
> to have taken several hundred photographs.  But even including
> composites it's not possible that they can have released more than
> about 20.  Where are the others!?
> 

Well, its been said that in the past ESA arent great at publicity, they
only have about 20 guys in that dept.

its quite likley that they will never give out more photos

:-/

Ian
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