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Water and fog found on Titan, Saturn’s moon
4 hours ago
by Mihai Andrei
As I was writing in a previous post, Titan is quite unique, in that aside from our planet it’s the only place in our solar system where significant quantities of liquid are to be found (though most are liquid ethane and methane). That doesn’t seem to make much of a difference considering the chemist ...
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Saturn-Nachrichten kompakt
5 hours ago
by skyweek
Der Schatten des Saturnmonds Titan, wie man ihn von der Erde aus nie sehen kann: Schräg fällt er hier am 7. November auf den Planeten, aufgenommen von Cassini bei 752 nm Wellenlänge aus 2.1 Mio. km Entfernung. ( CICLOPS Release 18.12.2009)
Skyweek Zwei Punkt Null - skyweek.wordpress.com · Rank: 116,309 · 8 references
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What If Earth Had Rings? Would it be as Crowded as Uranus? Get it?
6 hours ago
by scatmansham
Earth if it had a ring system like Saturn. I never really thought of what earth would look like with rings. I guess I always thought about more important questions like, how come girls only have 2 boobs, or how come whenever I put a plug in a socket the first try it’s always upside down. These are t ...
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Time to hoist the anchor…
8 hours ago
by Christopher Matlock
One of my favorite conversations with people is the idea that just because something existed before, it must continue to exist in the future. On the surface, it seems to make sense but under closer examination we can think of several examples that would prove otherwise. Take for instance, your dinne ...
Rose Matlock Consulting - rosematlock.com/blog
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The First Photograph of an Extraterrestrial Lake
9 hours ago
by John Farrier
The picture above was taken by NASA’s Cassini space probe of Titan, a moon of Saturn. The glint of light at the top of the moon is of a lake — the first non-Earth lake ever seen. In Popular Science, Jeremy Hsu writes: A haze of methane enshrouds Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, and prevents scientists ...
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the accidental exotic…
9 hours ago
by Roger
May we have a moment of silence please. A death of a great brand has just been announced. No, I’m not speaking about Tiger Woods. I’m talking about SAAB, the automobile of choice for the eclectic consumer – architects, beat poets, & creative asian males who play basketball. Unfortunately, the Swedis ...
You Offend Me You Offend ... - youoffendmeyouoffendmyfamily.com · Rank: 13,869 · 32 references
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Reflecting on Titan
9 hours ago
by J. Major
Sunlight reflects off a Titanic lake This soon-to-be historic image, released today, shows a glint of sunlight reflecting off the surface of a lake on Titan. Taken by the Cassini spacecraft’s Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS) in July 2009, the image has been extensively researched by s ...
Lights in the Dark - lightsinthedark.wordpress.com · Rank: 142,713 · 1 reference
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