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| Panoramic Views and Landscape Mosaics of
Titan stitched from Huygens Raw Images |
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| last update: August 20, 2006 "Descent to Titan" Video in a new version |
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| On January 14, 2005, the European
Space Agency's Huygens Probe parachuted through the Atmosphere of
Saturn's Moon Titan, and even landed softly on a plain on its surface.
A flood of scientific data was transmitted via the NASA's Cassini
Orbiter to Earth, the most interesting ones being images of the
landscape, that were obtained by the slowly spinning probe on its way
through the hazy atmosphere of Titan. With the decision to make the raw
data available to the public, the ESA made it possible for everyone
with deeper interest to contribute to this historic space mission. I personally concentrated on assembling the individual frames into Panoramic Views and Mosaic Images of the surface of Titan, so they become part of a larger context. The work was carried out in my rare leisure time, because of enthusiasm for this mission. |
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| Publications covering my Huygens Image
Processing work: Olivier de Goursac: "Titan enfin dévoilé", Le Figaro Magazine, July 23 2005 Frank Schubert: "Die Profis ausstechen", Astronomie heute, Juli / August 2005, Spektrum Verlag Link (PDF) Olivier de Goursac: "Titan Comme si vous y étiez", Valeurs Actuelles, June 10-16 2005, Dossier Spécial Salon du Bourget Greg Smye-Rumsby: "Amateurs - just amateurs", Astronomy Now, May 2005 |
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| Highly recommended Links: ESA Cassini-Huygens Homepage: http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Cassini-Huygens/index.html NASA Cassini-Huygens Homepage: http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.cfm ISS Cameras (Cassini Orbiter Cameras) Imaging Team at the Space Science Institute: http://ciclops.org Blog by Jason Perry from the ISS Team, with a lot of topical and detailed informations about the ongoing work (finished): http://volcanopele.blogspot.com Cassini Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS) Team at the University of Arizona: http://wwwvims.lpl.arizona.edu/index.html The Descend Imager and Spectral Radiometer (DISR) Team Homepage with lots of interesting and detailed informations about the instrument: http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~kholso/ A page that summarizes many more results from other Enthusiast compositions of the Huygens Images: http://anthony.liekens.net/huygens_static.html |
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| ...and a special
thanks to Sabine, for her patience with me, working on these Huygens
images lasting for hours ! |
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