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    Huygens on Titan The Highlights So Far

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    • Title Huygens on Titan The Highlights So Far
    • Released: 20/01/2005
    • Length 00:10:48
    • Language English
    • Footage Type Documentary
    • Copyright ESA
    • Description

      One week after the arrival of the Huygens probe at Titan, this Exchange provides a highlight edit of events 14-15 January 2005.
      The images are at the same time pre-event coverage for the media briefing on 21 January at 11:00 hours, revealing more of Titan's secrets.
      The script will be on-line as a PDF document under http://television.esa.int/photos/EbS37782.pdf

      Huygens arrival highlights.doc Page 1 of 3 20/01/2005 22:16
      HUYGENS : Suspense, success and recompense
      10:00:40
      After a seven-year journey on NASA's Cassini Saturn-orbiter, Europe's probe to
      Titan has fulfilled the engineers' and scientists' greatest expectations.
      Arriving safely on the most distant object ever visited by mankind,
      the Huygens mission has fully opened a window on another world.
      14 January 2005... at the European Space Agency's Mission Control Centre in
      Darmstadt, Germany. The world's press & media have assembled to follow the
      probe's descent with baited breath.
      10:01:17 - Clip Claudio Sollazzo
      10:01:23
      It will be a long day of intense suspense. Everyone knows that despite infinite
      precautions, success is not guaranteed, starting with the probe's fiery entry into
      Titan's atmosphere.
      10:01:33 - Clip Gerard Huttin
      10:01:54
      It is 10:13 GMT... Within three minutes, it is dramatically slowed to 1400 km an
      hour for the first pilot parachute to be deployed, then quickly opening the m

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    • Activity Space Science
    • Mission Cassini-Huygens, Huygens
    • People Claudio Sollazzo, David Southwood, Gérard Huttin, Jean-Jacques Dordain, Jean-Pierre Lebreton , John Zarnecki, Leonid Gurvits, Marcello Fulchignoni, Marty Tomasco
    • System Cassini orbiter, Huygens Probe
    • Location Darmstadt, ESOC, ESOC Main Control Room, Germany
    • Action Discussing, Interviewing, Parachuting, Presenting
    • Keywords Animations, Planetary mission, Probe, Saturn, Titan

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