From: henry@spsystems.net   
      
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   Chris Schumacher   wrote:   
   >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 will make a relatively slow descent under a parachute.  It's primarily   
   an atmosphere probe, with landing very much a secondary issue, but it will   
   *probably* survive touchdown/splashdown and report briefly from the surface.   
      
   >And speaking of which, all of Cassini's images seem to be in monochrome.   
   >Doesn't it have a color camera as well?   
      
   It's got the standard spacecraft setup:  a monochrome camera with a filter   
   wheel in front of it, so it can shoot color images by doing multiple shots   
   with different filters.  As with most such cameras, it doesn't actually do   
   color images unless there's specific reason, since they produce three times   
   as much data and then have to be combined and color-corrected.   
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