One Titan experiment fails--they forgot to turn it on (3)

1 Name: Sling!myL1/SLing 05/01/22(Sat)22:15 ID:jHxg6wAW

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=624&ncid=753&e=3&u=/ap/20050121/ap_on_sc/lost_in_space
"David Atkinson spent 18 years designing an experiment for the unmanned space mission to Saturn. Now some pieces of it are lost in space. Someone forgot to turn on the instrument Atkinson needed to measure the winds on Saturn's largest moon."

2 Name: Unverified Source 05/01/23(Sun)20:44 ID:n8BqsFdv

lol humanity

3 Name: Sling!myL1/SLing 05/02/09(Wed)18:07 ID:pY1ukeJb

Radio Telescopes Salvage Titan Wind Data
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/huygens_update_050209.html
"[]a network of ground-based telescopes that has apparently salvaged a wind experiment feared lost during a mission to the surface of Saturn’s moon Titan."
"By combining Doppler shift data from the Green Bank Telescope and other radio instruments, astronomers now know that while Titan’s winds are relatively weak at the moon’s surface, they reach nearly 270 miles (434 kilometer) an hour at an altitude of about 75 miles (120 kilometers)."

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