Jan 24

I’m sitting here freezing my ass off, and I start thinking that maybe it’s time for a warmer climate. But where to go? Of course the usual choices to the south might do nicely, but as the universe is slowly getting colder it would only last for so long. So, what the hell, maybe it’s time to skip town and head for another universe.

Jan 21

This has to be absolutley devistating to the professor who worked on the Doppler wind experiment. He put 18 years of his life into it, and someone forgot to turn on the instrument that was to carry out the experiment. Sheesh! You can’t even get good customer service from the European Space Agency!

Professor’s Saturn Experiment Forgotten

UPDATE 02/09/2005:

Looks like they were actually able to recover some of the data.

Jan 15

More pictures from the Huygens probe have been released, including one color photo. See them here.

You can also listen to sounds from Titan on this site.

Jan 14

The first picture of Titan, captured during Huygens descent, has been released. Current reports indicate that more pictures will be released in a couple of hours. This shot seems to show trenches that might be made by flowing liquid.

First picture from Titan

Dec 8

This is the most beautiful picture I have seen returned from the Cassini probe thus far, in my humble opinion:

Nature’s Canvas