TITAN -'soundtrack' to Cassini - Huygens mission

We are announcing the release of the new 300.000 Verschiedene Krawalle CD, titled TITAN. Music on TITAN is conceptually inspired by transplanetary mission of Cassini-Huygens space project (scientific research of the planet Saturn) and it is therefore presenting itself as a soundtrack to this great and important expedition.

About Cassini-Huygens mission

Saturn is the last planet we are to see with our own eyes. Its rotation time lasts about 29 years, which corresponds to the tone D in the 37th octave with 147.85 Hz. Its color is blue with a wavelength of about 460 Nanometers. Since ancient times Saturn has been associated with Capricorn. The thinking of usefulness is very closely related to Saturn. It supports the ability for concentration, the general of gaining consciousness and shows very clearly karmic connections. It brings structure and order.

The Cassini mission to Saturn is the most ambitious effort in planetary space exploration ever mounted. A joint endeavor of NASA, the European Space Agency - ESA and the Italian space agency, Cassini is sending a sophisticated robotic spacecraft to orbit the ringed planet and study the Saturnian's system in detail over a four-year period. Onboard Cassini is a scientific probe called Huygens that was released from the main spacecraft to parachute through the atmosphere to the surface of Saturn's largest and most interesting moon, Titan. Launched in 1997, Cassini reached Saturn in 2004 after an interplanetary cruise spanning nearly seven years. The six instruments on the Huygens probe have provided our first direct sampling of Titan's atmospheric chemistry and the first photographs of its hidden surface.

Haze-covered Titan offers a tantalizing mix of an Earth-like, nitrogen-based atmosphere and the surface that many scientists believe probably features chilled lakes of ethane and a surface coated with sticky brown organic condensate that has rained down from the atmosphere. Standing on Titan's surface beneath an orange sky, a visitor from Earth would likely find a cold, exotic world with a pungent odor reminiscent of a petroleum processing facility. Because Titan and Earth share so much in atmospheric composition, Titan is thought to hold clues to how the primitive Earth evolved into a life-bearing planet.

On January 14, 2005, the 2.7-meter-diameter Huygens entered Titan's atmosphere, deployed its parachutes and began its scientific observations during a descent of up to two and a half hours through that moon's dense atmosphere. As the probe broke through the cloud deck, a camera captured pictures of the Titans panorama. Titan's surface properties have been observed, and about 1,000 images of the clouds and surface have been returned. In the final moments of decent, a spotlight illuminated the surface for the imaging instrument onboard. Throughout its mission, Huygens will radio data collected by its instruments to the Cassini orbiter to be stored and then relayed to Earth...

The Saturnian system offers more variety in scientific targets for study than any other planet in our solar system. Over the course of Cassini's four-year mission, and through the studies of Titan by the Huygens probe, scientists expect to reveal new discoveries and enrich our understanding of phenomena in fields including biology, climatology, volcanism, tectonics, the physics of disc systems such as galaxies and solar system formation, and more.

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