Why on *earth* are the Titan scientists lounging around in the cold?
I’m sitting here watching the BBC broadcast of the Huygens landing on Titan coming from European Space Centre, where incomprehensibly they have the anchor and his guests sitting outdoors wearing thinck fleeces, almost visibly shivering in the cold; you can see their breath.
Why? (Perhaps it’s to add verisimilitude - like the real place.)
Still, very interesting. OK, it’s not quite the Moon landing. See what they’ve done at http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Cassini-Huygens/. Images are there, if diffficult to interpret except by experts. But these people are experts - you’ve got one who can tell you, from the tracing of a contact pulse lasting 1/20th of a second, whether it’s landed on rock, dust, water or clay.
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