15 January 05

Long Way Off

Yesterday the Huygens space probe landed on Saturn’s moon Titan. The image it took of the surface is one of the most tantalizing things I’ve seen. The probe was not intended to survive long on the surface and I don’t think any more images from the surface are forthcoming. So this narrow view of a field of flat rocks is the farthest close-up surface look of a celestial body we will have for some time.

Posted by at 09:52 PM in Nature and Place | Link |
  1. I didn’t dare hope that the results of the probe would be this good. Incredible pictures aren’t they?

    — Geoff    15. January 2005, 23:53    Link

  2. It’s funny how much the pic of Titan’s surface looks like the first pic of Mars’s surface, from Viking in ... ‘76 was it? Flat with lots of rocks.

    Perhaps that’s what the universe looks like.

    — Jarrett    16. January 2005, 10:37    Link

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