Today is the kind of day during which enough data will be received from the Huygens probe to rewrite entire textbook chapters with discoveries about Saturn's moon Titan, the only moon in the solar system with a significant atmosphere. Follow the link for updates.
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Is Titan the moon, or one of, in our solar system with "lakes"?
It's been too long since I've had an astronomy class. I feel like a baboon.
Posted by: Polerand on January 14, 2005 02:27 PMAt one point that kind of thing was suggested. It's been debated. We may know the real answer Very Soon.
Posted by: Feff on January 14, 2005 02:33 PMOK, folks, look at this. We plunked it into the shallows of a pond or lake. Yeah, the image processing isn't done yet, but it sure looks like the thing holding the camera is standing in a few inches of ... liquid, a few feet from the ... liquid's edge. The only water in the picture is the rocks, of course.
Sometimes you roll the dice and get lucky. *R*e*a*l*l*y* lucky.
Posted by: Feff on January 18, 2005 09:55 AM