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2005 Saturn Landing

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  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    Incredible.

    Why have they been sitting on that for so long? Or was it such a slow download?
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,256
    Good question. Either slow download or slow computer animation. The landing was in early 2005, a full year before the multicore Propeller was introduced. Thus, NASA was forced to use a then-state of the art BS2 for all the data acquisition and high resolution graphics processing. At 3000 instructions per second, running 24 hours a day, that 2-minute video at 20 FPS would take exactly 12 years to process. So yes, the video is brand new for 2017.
  • TorTor Posts: 2,010
    I have seen the landing part before. But not put together with the rest as this.
  • MikeDYurMikeDYur Posts: 2,176
    Simply beautiful touchdown. This is what it's all about, visual feedback from another world. Cassini's mission is about over, and there is a planned crash landing on Saturn. I hope there is something to see in the dense clouds.

    Juno is sending steady information back, Jupiter, now there is an interesting planet. Last I read they don't really know if it has a solid surface. How would you like to live there, your daily weather report would include what color the sky will be in your area today.
  • ErNaErNa Posts: 1,752
    Why have they been sitting on that for so long? Or was it such a slow download?

    No, it's due to the fact, that this information just leaked now. It should have been WithHold.
  • TorTor Posts: 2,010
    As I said three posts above, I have seen that landing before. Nothing withheld. They simply compiled a very nice video with everything put together, w/annotations.
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