Lord FlatHead Posted January 14, 2005 First images here. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/main/index.html How disappointingly like Mars. Let's hope higher resolution shots are coming. 0 Share this post Link to post
Cyb Posted January 14, 2005 it'll be landing on the surface in the next few days I believe, so I'm sure there will be some neat panoramic type shots like the ones sent back from Mars. 0 Share this post Link to post
Lord FlatHead Posted January 14, 2005 It's already landed on the surface, stupidhead. 0 Share this post Link to post
Quast Posted January 14, 2005 I'll give a damn once they land on Europa and send a probe through the ice there. 0 Share this post Link to post
Fredrik Posted January 14, 2005 Finally evidence of life in the universe. 0 Share this post Link to post
AirRaid Posted January 14, 2005 Am I the only one who's not awe-inspired by the possible evidence of life/water/whatthefuckever on other planets/moons? 0 Share this post Link to post
Johnatone Posted January 15, 2005 The real amazement is that NASA didn't actually fuck up this time. And all that shit about 'Oh, it could resemble an early Earth' is SWAG (scientific wild ass guess); they're blowing smoke out of their asses. In all honesty the whole program is a useless waste of taxpayer's money. They haven't been useful since the Apollo program. Although a few good inventions came out of it. 0 Share this post Link to post
Snarboo Posted January 15, 2005 Wow, we land a probe successfully, farther out than any other in history I might add, and it's not enough. "OMG, it's just a bunch of rocks! Take pictures of like...cooler stuff." You do realize that in some of the shots you can see actual clouds on a body in space other than Earth? Appearently this isn't impressive or news worthy because it's not about a Half-Life 2 expansion pack or something. Just because something in science doesn't have a practical application, doesn't make it useless. I suppose we shouldn't do anything then if it doesn't like...fix our broken toaster. 0 Share this post Link to post
fodders Posted January 15, 2005 Now they have landed on Titan, do you think someone will ever land on the moon? :P 0 Share this post Link to post
Goat Posted January 15, 2005 billions of dollars and all we get is circa-2001 cellphone quality photos? COME ON! 0 Share this post Link to post
AndrewB Posted January 15, 2005 Give them a break. Their throughput is like a fraction of what a modern dialup modem is. 0 Share this post Link to post
Russell_P Posted January 15, 2005 Lord FlatHead said:How disappointingly like Mars. Let's hope higher resolution shots are coming. Disappointing? I don't agree. What were you expecting? I doubt that there will be any higher resolution shots and there certainly wont be any panoramic shots (it was a fixed camera). But then the images are of secondary importance compared to the data collected. 0 Share this post Link to post
Cyb Posted January 15, 2005 Lord FlatHead said:It's already landed on the surface, stupidhead. oops, I guess I misread something or it was an old article :/ pretty awesome stuff, too bad it didn't land in an ocean or near one, but that river shot is quite cool 0 Share this post Link to post
DaJuice Posted January 15, 2005 I love it. Pics like these always get me excited. 0 Share this post Link to post
Quasar Posted January 15, 2005 Wow this is sweet. I was afraid that Huygens would crash-land like that solar probe did a few months back, but I see it made it in one piece ^_^ Now if some green thing with antennae would just run across the picture.. nah just kidding :P This is cool and I hope there will be a lot more. 0 Share this post Link to post
geekmarine Posted January 15, 2005 Heck, I agree, crappy image quality there. I know it can't be helped, though, and I'm just grateful that we got to see it. Wow, that is incredibly cool. Hope they do a colorized version, like with the Mars pictures, though that may be asking a bit much, all things considered. As it is, I'm hoping for more and better, but I realize the difficulty in obtaining what we already have. 0 Share this post Link to post
Lord FlatHead Posted January 15, 2005 Russell_P said:Disappointing? I don't agree. What were you expecting? I was referring to that one picture taken after landing: what seems like a fairly flat plain strewn with boulders, just like Mars. Don't think I'm not impressed by the fact that NASA managed to land there and send back information, but I half-expected a more exciting scene... diamond mountains maybe, or lakes of molten chocolate. Oh well, fair enough. 0 Share this post Link to post
Janderson Posted January 15, 2005 So what was the point of sending it there? Are we hunting for other races or something? 0 Share this post Link to post
MRB_Doom Posted January 15, 2005 ...and by receiving images showing clouds on other moons/planets accomplishes just that. 0 Share this post Link to post
Enjay Posted January 15, 2005 Janderson said:So what was the point of sending it there? Same point people have always investigated the unknown for. 0 Share this post Link to post
Stealthy Ivan Posted January 15, 2005 We are looking for another planet to fuck up, just like this one... 0 Share this post Link to post
Fletcher` Posted January 15, 2005 Goat said:billions of dollars and all we get is circa-2001 cellphone quality photos? COME ON! its going billions of miles of space, what do you expect? 0 Share this post Link to post