On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 09:37:55 +0000, Steve J wrote:

Why are the photos that return from titan not perfect, dont get me wrong its
a bloody amazing achievment to land a probe there, but surely thats the
difficult bit, if a picture is received from a quality camera which I assume
it is, surely the picture should be perfect, or is the data fragmented.

Because Huygens was an add-on to Cassini, and landing was an afterthought
to an atmosphereic probe, and surving landing was chancy at best so they
didn't waste a lot of time or resources on what basically the bottom of
the science-return food chain

Huygens purpose was gathering atmosphereic data. Everything else was
a (very nice!) bonus.

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