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Is Huygens landing on the daylit or nighttime side of Titan?
I hope it's the daylit side...
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In article . com,
wrote: I hope it's the daylit side... Yes, because (among other reasons) they want to get images of the Sun on the way down for measuring the atmospheric haze. Mind you, Huygens has its own landing light, which will be turned on just before touchdown. (The spectral characteristics of surface sunlight are poorly-known, and they want a light source of known spectrum for a look at the surface material.) -- "Think outside the box -- the box isn't our friend." | Henry Spencer -- George Herbert | |
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