Posted in portal.gznq.com | edit | March 12th, 2010
The camera on the Huygens land set to land on Titan in 2004 is setup to work during descent, not after landing Why is this?Technical limitations. Machine would not work after a hard landing.It only had battery power, so it was never going to survive more than a few minutes on the surface. It did send back one image after landing though.
(it didn't have a hard landing - it came down on parachutes and survived to send back data for a couple of hours after that)The aim was to study the atmospheric layer and it was hard landing. Not soft landing with retro rockets like Path finder or viking!#If you have any other info about this subject , Please add it free.# |
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