Huygens on Titan – One Year After / ESA TV Exchanges / 12-01-2006
The next transmission of the ESA TV Service will be:
12-Jan-06 10:15 – 10:30 GMT
Huygens on Titan – One Year After
ESA TV Exchanges
Background information on the transmission:
Replay 1: 12 January 2005, 16:00-16:15 GMT
Replay 2: 14 January 2005, 11:30-11:45 GMT
Since 18 months, Cassini and Huygens have been providing otherworldly images of Saturn and its stable of satellites.
The highlight so far was the arrival on 14 January 2005 of ESA’s Huygens probe on the giant moon Titan. Both the lander and the orbiting Cassini, which carried out 8 close flybys of Titan in 2005, have opened new vistas on this Earth-like satellite.
This week, the Huygens science teams are meeting in Paris to celebrate this historic landing, the first ever on an object of the outer solar system. Today’s Exchange reviews the latest science results – including the still open question of the origins of the moon’s large quanities of methane in its atmosphere.
The programme will feature interviews with Jean-Pierre Lebreton, Huygens ESA programme manager, and with Jonathan Lunine, interdisciplinary scientist. It will also present new spectacular images of Titan’s surface, and animations of the probe’s descent compiled from the data it sent back to Earth.
Interviews in English, French and Italian (Lunine)
The script will be online as a PDF file under http://television.esa.int/photos/EbS44184.pdf (on 12 Jan a.m.)
This ESA TV Exchanges feed is transmitted by the European Commission’s “Europe by Satellite” (EbS) service. You can find the complete transmission schedule and download scripts and shot lists, also for ESA TV items, from the EbS Web site at http://europa.eu.int/comm/ebs/schedule.cfm
More background information can be found on http://huygens.esa.int/science-e/www/area/index.cfm?fareaid=12.
Transmission details:EUTELSAT HOT BIRD at 13° East (DVB/MPEG-2)
Horizontal, F=12,476 MHz (MCPC, Europe by Satellite)
SR=27,500 MS/sec, FEC=3/4
For further information, visit our website at http://television.esa.int. For other enquires, contact Claus Habfast, Tel +31 71 565 3838, Fax +31 71 565 6340, e-mail claus.habfast@esa.int.
