Titan Descent Data Movie with Bells and Whistles
Titan Descent Data Movie with Bells and Whistles
-- landing on Saturn's moon, Titan.
Click here for the Quicktime movie.
This is one of the best videos I’ve ever seen assembled from space exploration data. Someone deserves special credit for the concept and editing. Using the same beep-boops you get from slot machines is a riot.
This movie, built with data collected during the European Space Agency’s Huygens probe on Jan. 14, 2005, shows the operation of the Descent Imager/Spectral Radiometer camera during its descent and after touchdown [on Saturn’s moon, Titan]. The camera was funded by NASA.
The almost four-hour-long record of the descent is shown in less than five minutes. That’s 40 times the actual speed up to landing and 100 times the actual speed thereafter.
Read all the options at the download page to make an appropriate choice. It explains all the things happening onscreen during the descent.
Instead of streaming, I right-clicked at the lower image and downloaded the file > imported to iTunes > played full-screen with Front Row. Dynamite!
JPL/NASA home page is here.
Posted: Sat - May 6, 2006 at 10:49 AM