Huygens lands

[Mart]

Just in case someone would be interested, but haven't heard yet. Huygens probe landed on Titan. Quite interesting landscapes there. There are not many processed pictures yet, but here you can see some:

http://www.solarviews.com/eng/huygens.htm

Some time ago there was a probe, which entered Jupiter atmosphere, much more dense than that of Titan, but here there was also a landing.

[Dis]

but sadly no monoliths were found

[Mart]

so far...

[Chaos Theory]

If there were, would we hear about it?

[Mart]

who would tell? there is -180 Celsius. Some snowmen maybe

[Lord Nword]

Originally posted by mart7x5
who would tell? there is -180 Celsius. Some snowmen maybe

Made of methane...(i think)

Take a match and BOOM!!

[Alex]

One of the pictures show strange red fungus and a small object in the soil. The scientists zoomed in the image of the small object and found out that it was a holobook and this was written on its cover: "How to Raise a Nerve-Stapled Child".

[Mark123jansen]

Originally posted by Lord Nword


Made of methane...(i think)

Take a match and BOOM!!

not quite, for an explosion to occur, you would need oxygen, and lots of it in this case, luckily for the huygens probe, Titan doesnt have any (significant amounts)

[Lord Nword]

Originally posted by Mark123jansen


not quite, for an explosion to occur, you would need oxygen, and lots of it in this case, luckily for the huygens probe, Titan doesnt have any (significant amounts)

Shows how little Advanced Placement Chemistry that I'm taking is having on my thoughts

[Stormwatcher]

even with oxyen present it would only explode on warmer(!) days, since methane has a flamimg point of -187 degrees celsius.

[Mark123jansen]

well, the heat generated by huygens descend through the atmosphere, or its desceleration boosters would have taken care of that, so lack of oxygen really was the only thing keeping that moon from blowing up.

[Mart]

That's what I love about SMACX, I leave a short note about some astronautics achievement and there goes a Planetology course (which I love too ) with all its chemistry and physics

[SynthetGod8]

Wouldn't that have been funny if the probe had accidentally exploded the surface of Titan? Not saying it's possible, since it clearly didn't happen, but think of the pictures.

[paramir]

HAHAHA there goes (large nuber) million dollars of technologie and years of waiting HAHAHA

[Lord Nword]

Any asteroid would have done that already