4 Dec
2003
4 Dec
'03
10:02 a.m.
Thanks Ken. What a waste. Too bad there is such bad press toward nuclear powered probes. Still, any data from Titan will be welcome. C. --- Ken Warner <KillerKen@killerken.com> wrote:
The Huygens probe is designed to have power for 153 minutes. They expect a maximum decent time of 2 1/2 hours. This would leave 3 minutes on the surface. If it decends faster or the batteries last longer the Cassini probe has a 3 hour window to collect the data. The data will be sent back to Earth after that.
Ken
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