A return to the orangey world
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It had this strange orange-yellow hue and the focussing was some way off pin-sharp, but the image returned from the surface of Titan by the Huygens probe was unquestionably one of the pictures of 2005.
Twelve months on, and you still look at it with wonder - what lies to the right or left, just out of view? What's behind?
All we got was the one shot; so, those questions will for ever be left hanging.
It seems remarkable - to this correspondent at least - that you can get any sort of picture from the surface of a moon that's more than a billion km from Earth.
It had this strange orange-yellow hue and the focussing was some way off pin-sharp, but the image returned from the surface of Titan by the Huygens probe was unquestionably one of the pictures of 2005.Twelve months on, and you still look at it with wonder - what lies to the right or left, just out of view? What's behind?
All we got was the one shot; so, those questions will for ever be left hanging.
It seems remarkable - to this correspondent at least - that you can get any sort of picture from the surface of a moon that's more than a billion km from Earth.
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