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3...2...1...LIFT OFF! On October 15th, 1997 the largest interplanetary
spacecraft ever built left Earth for the vast Saturnian system - the Cassini
orbiter with its attached Huygens probe. After a seven-year journey through
the roaring silence of space Cassini finally reached its goal: the majestic
rings, dozens of frozen moons and huge magnetosphere of Saturn that has
intrigued human imagination for centuries.
TITAN, Saturn's
largest moon, is one of the most mysterious objects in our
Solar System. Scientists think that its atmosphere resembles that of a very
young
Earth. The Huygens probe was released from Cassini in December 2004.
Two weeks later it entered the murky atmosphere of TITAN and descended
via
parachute onto its mysterious surface. The ESA Huygens probe was the first to
land on a world in the outer Solar System.
BLUE VITRIOL are supplying the soundtrack to every aspect of this
revolutionary mission with their 'THEY WENT TO TITAN'-EP on JAHTARI. A long
journey to the outer regions of Dub itself, made for listening as a whole -
over and over again. The dense atmosphere of TITAN becomes almost palpable
in each track, every crag in the clifted surface of that strange moon an own
sound.
Hear vast Methane oceans moving in slow motion.
Space suits hissing,
scanner
data transmitting, control lights flashing. Rockets igniting into the
screaming
magnetosphere, radar echos penetrating the thick clouds, echoing
back
around
the rings of Saturn. Deep and lightyears away.
Commencing landing sequence to your sonic orbit now!
RELATED LINKS:
read more on the whole Huygens mission HERE and HERE
check the incredible Artwork HERE
listen to original sounds (!) from the Titan landing HERE