What happened to the supposed ESA press Conf?

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From ESA: <br /><br />"Some stunning preliminary results were presented shortly after the science teams obtained access to their data, on 15 January. After several days of processing and analysis of these results, the scientists will be able to deliver a better view of this strange distant world during a press conference on Friday 21 January at 11:00 CET at ESA’s Headquarters in Paris (rebroadcast at several other ESA establishments)." <br /><br />Hasn't that time passed already? It's 10AM EST, isn't that like 3pm CET?<br /><br />Has anyone heard anything about this?<br /><br />Heyo<br /><br />(I'm a nucleus now, not a proton anymore, sweeeet)
 
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Listened to it 2:00 pacific time. New word on lost data - Radio telescope may have not only recovered that info but Huygens may have broadcast longer then was transmitted to Cassini. So there may be a wealth of scientific data to analyze from that lost data and more. <br /><br />Huygens news briefing - methane rain, sandy soil like landing spot, water ice and cold as he$ll (as predicted).<br />Methane is seeping out below the surface. Good thing you can't light a match (no oxygen) or Titan would blow-up. More methane in the atmosphere at lower levels than expected.<br /><br /><font color="orange">“We’ve got a flammable world, and it’s quite extraordinary,” said Toby Owen, a scientist from Honolulu’s Institute for Astronomy.<br /><br />But unlike Earth, where water constantly circulates back into the atmosphere, Titan’s methane never evaporates back into airborne smog.<br /><br />“There must be some source of methane inside Titan which is releasing the gas into the atmosphere. It has to be continually renewed, otherwise it would have all disappeared,” said Owen.<br /><br />http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6851959/<br /><br /></font> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Ron Bennett </div>
 
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Thanks for the update, rlb2.<br /><br />No new spectacular images, I gather.<br /><br />Heyo
 
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Hopefully they can extract some more images out of the radio telescope data from the lost “A” data. That will take some time to do. <br /><br />“A” data images would have been sharper with better quality because Huygens had a controlling mechanism on it to account for motion, don't know the whole story about that.<br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> Ron Bennett </div>
 
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