Huygens Descent to Titan Surface
Date: 05 May 2006 In 4 minutes 40 seconds, the movie shows what the probe saw within the few hours of the descent and the eventual landing. At first the Huygens camera just saw haze over the distant surface. The haze started to clear at about 60 kilometres altitude, making it possible to resolve surface features as large as 100 metres. Only after landing could the probe's camera resolve the smallest surface details down to little grains of sand. Video by: Erich Karkoschka, DISR team, University of Arizona. Script by: Chuck See, DISR team, University of Arizona. Narration voice: KUAT radio broadcaster David Harrington. Music: Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 by Debbie Hu (Yelm, Wa, USA).
Last Update: 04 Oct 2006
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