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#OTD in 2005, @esa's Huygens probe descended to the surface of Titan as part of the @CassiniSaturn mission.
I wasn't working for ESA at the time, but happily took part in an inadvertent experiment in public engagement that took place that day.
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I wasn't working for ESA at the time, but happily took part in an inadvertent experiment in public engagement that took place that day.
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@esa @CassiniSaturn IIRC, as imaging data arrived back from Saturn, they were transferred from @esaoperations to the DISR camera team at @uarizona via ftp.
The ftp account was public & unpassworded, & details of its existence leaked on to the internet.
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The ftp account was public & unpassworded, & details of its existence leaked on to the internet.
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@esa @CassiniSaturn @esaoperations @uarizona Like many, I went on to the ftp account & downloaded images as they arrived. They were raw & uncalibrated as below, & Huygens was spinning, so it wasn't clear (at least to my untrained eye) that they were showing valleys, channels, & flood plains.
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