Visit To Titan

This past week, the $700 million Huygens probe entered the atmosphere of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, and landed. Within hours, images of the moon were transmitted to ecstatic scientists and interested observers around the world. Personally, it's fascinating and I'm not an astronomy buff. Just the technology involved is hard to comprehend. Nevertheless, I watch with keen interest and Speed Of Thought has become my first stop for keeping abreast of new developments.

The public has become largely jaded with space exploration and technology, failing to appreciate the challenges. In my mind, it's an endlessly interesting and important subject.