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Post A Reply Login Name: Password: Message: HTML is enabled. UBB Code™ is enabled. [QUOTE]Originally posted by Sol System: [QB] All the zips and zings apparently correspond to some instrument or readout or something, but I certainly haven't been able to decode them, despite the instructions provided. And is the end of it sped up? More so than the rest, I mean? I don't think the batteries lasted all that long once it got to the surface. Wikipedia has this to say: [QUOTE]The main mission phase was a parachute descent through Titan's atmosphere. The batteries and all other resources were sized for a Huygens mission duration of 153 minutes, corresponding to a maximum descent time of 2.5 hours plus at least 3 additional minutes (and possibly a half hour or more) on Titan's surface. The probe's radio link was activated early in the descent phase, and the orbiter "listened" to the probe for the next 3 hours, including the descent phase, and the first thirty minutes after touchdown. Not long after the end of this three-hour communication window, Cassini's high-gain antenna (HGA) was turned away from Titan and toward Earth.[/QUOTE] [/QB][/QUOTE]

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