Pictures from Titan's Surface!
Jan. 14th, 2005 12:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brooksmoses*bouncebounce*
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From 16km up (40m/pixel resolution) [as identified by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
keshwyn, who saw it on a webcast]:
From 8km up (20m/pixel resolution) [NASA is identifying this as the 16km picture and the above as the 8km, but the ESA agrees with keshwyn.]:
And, from the surface:
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From 16km up (40m/pixel resolution) [as identified by
keshwyn, who saw it on a webcast]:From 8km up (20m/pixel resolution) [NASA is identifying this as the 16km picture and the above as the 8km, but the ESA agrees with keshwyn.]:
And, from the surface:
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Date: 2005-01-14 08:52 pm (UTC)Some of my early memories are of the Mercury program, so the story of space exploration always seems like part of the story of my life. It feels so personal whenever we take a big step ahead or have a disaster.
So right now I have a completely unearned sense of success.
MAO
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Date: 2005-01-14 08:58 pm (UTC)Apparently, their current speculation is that those are box canyons with seepage coming out of them, going down to a shore line (shore line!) of...something. They didn't say what.
Liquid methane would be so cool.
Alas, the other picture would seem to disprove the rumor I'd heard that Huygens was floating on something, though I suppose that could be a rocky beach with liquid something washing around it...
Eeeeeeeee, so cool!