Where Huygens will land

[robnissen]

This is cool. The attached article has the apparant landing site together with the picture coverage area as Huygens descends. What is great is that the coverage area is directly over the dark and light areas of Titan, with the landing spot appearing to be right on a black/white boundary. I can't wait.<br /><br />http://www.universetoday.com/am/publish/huygens_descent_path.html?1212005

 

[rogers_buck]

I wonder if there will be live coverage on the NASA channel? I read somewhere that the plan was not to have a live event.

 

[dave_uk]

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/main/index.html<br /><br />January 13, Thursday<br />10:55 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. - Huygens Final Status News Conference From ESA <br /><br />January 14, Friday<br />3 a.m. - Live Coverage Begins <br />11:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. - Huygens Probe News Briefing (will confirm if data is being received)<br />5 p.m. - 6 p.m. - ESA Commentary and "Presentation of First Triplet Image of/data from Titan" <br /><br />January 15, Saturday<br />5 a.m. - 6 a.m. - ESA News Briefing "Early Look at Science Results"

 

[CalliArcale]

According to NASA TV's schedule, there will indeed be live coverage as Cassini's signal is reacquired on Earth around 9:15AM Central time. But it won't be much -- probably just enough to confirm the basics of what happened. There frankly isn't much to cover live; they won't be able to show nearly-live pictures like they do with MER, because Cassini isn't going to be relaying live information itself -- it'll be replaying data received during Huygens' descent and touchdown. But throughout the day, NASA will be retransmitting live the ESA press conferences. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><font color="#666699"><em>"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly . . . timey wimey . . . stuff."</em>  -- The Tenth Doctor, "Blink"</font></p> </div>