When, how long till they decipher Huygens data?

[k24anson]

Wow, a month and a half and nothing much from the Huygens probe guys. I personally find the idea of parachuting a probe onto Titan to be one of the coolest things to be done with a machine, and all I've heard is some wind stuff. Where is all or any of the Huygens probe info?<br /><br /><img src="/images/icons/mad.gif" /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <span style="color:#000080" class="Apple-style-span">Stay focused. Go slow. Keep it simple.</span> </div>

 

[thalion]

Probably embargoed until the proprietary period is up. We'll see a lot more in a year or so, when I bet the first major papers on the results will be published.

 

[alpha_taur1]

I seem to remember reading the Huygens report somewhere. <br /><br />The raw data is available via an ASU site I think. Try the ESA site. I think they might link from there. If not, I'll try to find it on the weekend.<br /><br />http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Cassini-Huygens/SEM85Q71Y3E_0.html

 

[peteb]

I think most of the teams are busy getting ready for the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Houston in March, which may be the next major release of information:<br />http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2005/<br /><br />I understand that the first papers from orbit insertion and the early observations are in press at <i>Science</i>, but don't know when they will be published. The first Huygens papers may be out by summer (?)

 

[centsworth_II]

I'm interested in seeing how many different organic compounds they can tease out of the gas chromatograph/mass spectrometer data. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[thechemist]

Cassini papers have been published in today's issue of Science :<br /><br />http://www.sciencemag.org/content/vol307/issue5713/?etoc <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <em>I feel better than James Brown.</em> </div>