From: zapkitty@gmx.co.uk   
      
   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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