From: j.garry@chem.leidenuniv.nl   
      
   "Chris Schumacher" wrote in message   
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   > I was wondering if Huygens is actually going to land on Titan, or is   
   simply   
   > going to crash into it, a la the Ranger series?   
      
   It should land.   
   The atmosphere of Titan is rather dense (surface density of four and a bit   
   kilogrammes per cubic metre) and so its heatshield and parachutes should   
   permit it to land at a relatively gentle few metres/second.   
      
   > And speaking of which, all of Cassini's images seem to be in monochrome.   
      
   ?:|   
   The Narrow Angle Camera and Wide Angle Camera use separate filters in filter   
   wheels to image in discrete wavelengths, and then those colour data are   
   composited to form 'real' colour.   
      
   > Doesn't it have a color camera as well?   
      
   See above. It's difficult to make a camera that records spectral information   
   *without* some kind of filtering.   
      
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