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Contributions by citizen science projects
The fact that Huygens rotated in the opposite direction than planned delayed the creation of surface mosaics from the raw data by the project team for many month. On the other hand, this provided an opportunity for some citizen science projects to attempt the task of assembling the surface mosaics. This was possible, because the European Space Agency approved the publication of the DISR raw images and gave the permission for citizen scientists to present their results on the internet. Some of these Citizen Science projects have received a lot of attention in the scientific community, in popular scientific journals and in the public media. While the media liked to present the story of amateurs outperforming the professionals, most of the participants saw themselves as citizen scientists, and the driving force behind their work was a desire to find out and show as much as possible of the hitherto unknown surface of Titan. Thus, some enthusiasts were the first at all to publish surface mosaics and panoramas of Titan already the day after Huygens landed , another project worked with the Huygens DISR data for several months until virtually all images with recognizable structures could be assigned to their correct position, resulting in comprehensive mosaics and panoramas. One panorama from this citizen science project was finally published in the context of a Nature review by Robert Burns.