What Huygens Saw On Titan - New Image Processing

I have seen things with my eyes that past generations would never have dreamed of. How lucky I am.

If you're wondering why the footage looks so strange, it's because a) it's not video, it's a series of photos compiled together to resemble video, and b) Titan is very dark and hazy, so they processed the images to render a clearer picture

Consider this thought: Two to three hundred years from now, humans will land on Titan and retrieve this lander and place it in a museum. They will think about our primitive and rudimentary technologies and wonder how we could have made it to Titan at all.

I'm amazed at how far we got in the last 100 years or so... I'm lying in bed, holding a mobile phone and watching images for a moon of Saturn...

The very first piece of flight hardware that I ever worked on in my Aerospace Career was the Descent Imaging Spectral Radiometer (DISR) that took these images. I was working at Lockheed Martin Space Simulation Laboratory where they built the DISR. They also built the Cassini Propulsion Module and I got to see that up close and personal.

I have now stood on the moon of Saturn. Thank You so much for such a wonderful gift!!

As a career aerospace machinist I was working for A-tron machining in Tucson Arizona. In a partnership with Martin Marietta and University of Arizona lunar planetary lab. I was given 2 miniature infrared camera bodies to machine from titanium. Back then machining titanium was still fairly new but I was given a document from when they built the blackbird spy plane from titanium. They had all the clearance angles to be ground onto cutting tools, the proper geo for drills and taps. Very interesting and probably highlight of my time, which included machining parts for space shuttle, Hubble, space station, stealth program, F15, Reagan’s Star Wars program and more. A little disappointed when they told me I would have to wait 7 yrs after launch to see results.

It is very curious how some people deny the fact of space exploration, for it being "too complex and difficult to even be possible" yet they don't even give a second thought to the fact that they're expressing their ignorant opinion through a machine, which has the capability of uncanny accuracy and precision to manipulate single electrons to operate billions of mathematical calculations per second inside a one inch by one inch piece of silica and gold, which are turned into graphic information by thousands of tiny lamps working in perfect conjunction. This machine consumes as much energy as a light bulb, and is connected via electromagnetic waves to a globe-wide network of information, which is contained in millions of synchronized electronic discs which store and manage almost unintelligible amounts digital data. Those machines are powered by streams of electrons which travel kilometers inside copper wires, from their source in a facility which transforms the many forms of energy in nature into usable electricity. All this seems negligible, but shooting a missile into the sky with enough accuracy to come close to another planet seems impossible. Who understands them.

weather update: slight chance of Methane

I did a little bit of work on the Cassini probe for Marconi in the late 80s, when we were settling on the overall shape and the disposition of the sensor packages. It was really nice to see it make Titanfall so spectacularly well, over 15 years later. It doesn't look like a moon, it looks like a real PLANET !

The more they research other planets, the more I admire and love the mine.

Is anyone else just fascinated with seeing the makeup of different moons and planets and having actual footage relayed back? Its so alien, so different.. Truly awe inspiring.

How did the google van get all the way up there?

It's sad, that most people that saw this video will never see humanity colonizing the solar system. Maybe reach Mars, and that's it. But probably, a very long line of descendants of you will see humanity in other worlds, maybe even live on it. Time is sadly amazing.

something as simple and normal as the shadow of a parachute going by is the "pinch me" moment I needed looking at this bizarre world.

This is so amazing. Back in the 1980s all we had are hazy orange blobs for images of Titan. What a time to be alive.

"This...does put a smile on my face".

Looks like landing at LAX in the 70's ... Haven't been through smog like that since...

Beethoven I am sure never imagined his music would be used for this:) Incredible footage.

God I love space...so many mysteries...so much to see...