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What Are These Strange Scarlet Streaks Spotted on Tethys?
universetoday.com ^
| July 29, 2015
| Jason Major
Posted on 07/29/2015 11:40:55 AM PDT by BenLurkin
They stretch for long distances across the moons surface following the rugged terrain, continuing unbroken over hills and down into craters
and their cause isnt yet known.
According to a NASA news release, The origin of the features and their reddish color is currently a mystery to Cassini scientists. Possibilities being studied include ideas that the reddish material is exposed ice with chemical impurities, or the result of outgassing from inside Tethys. The streaks could also be associated with features like fractures that are below the resolution of the available images.
The images were taken by Cassini during a flyby of the 660-mile-wide (1,062 km) Tethys on April 11, 2015 at a resolution of about 2,300 feet (700 meters) per pixel. They were acquired in visible green, infrared, and ultraviolet light wavelengths and so the composite image reveals colors our eyes cant directly perceive. The combination of this and the solar illumination needed to image this particular area as the spacecraft passed by are why these features havent been seen so well until now.
The red arcs really popped out when we saw the new images, said Cassini participating scientist Paul Schenk of the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston. Its surprising how extensive these features are.
(Excerpt) Read more at universetoday.com ...
TOPICS: Astronomy
KEYWORDS: astronomy; cassini; raystevens; saturn; science; tethys
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Enhanced-color image from Cassini showing red streaks on Saturns moon Tethys
(Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute)
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posted on
07/29/2015 11:40:55 AM PDT
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BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
07/29/2015 11:43:47 AM PDT
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left that other site
(You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
To: left that other site
chemtrails for the agenda 21 enforcement.
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posted on
07/29/2015 11:48:34 AM PDT
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davidb56
To: davidb56
Aha! Your theory is better than mine! :-)
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07/29/2015 11:49:09 AM PDT
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left that other site
(You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
To: BenLurkin
What Are These Strange Scarlet Streaks Spotted on Tethys?-"Enhanced-color image from Cassini showing red streaks
Poor Photoshopping? Bad CGI?
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posted on
07/29/2015 11:50:05 AM PDT
by
qam1
(There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
To: BenLurkin
Looks like a grape juice accident.
To: BenLurkin
Unsupervised Alien child w color crayon?
or
Element, such as iron, interacting w water and whatever atmosphere is present.
It wouldn’t be unusual for such an element to have geological forces drive these alignments.
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07/29/2015 11:52:37 AM PDT
by
G Larry
(Obama is replicating the instruments of the fall of Rome)
To: BenLurkin
Christo was there!
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posted on
07/29/2015 11:53:51 AM PDT
by
Dr. Thorne
(The night is far spent, the day is at hand.- Romans 13:12)
To: BenLurkin
Not just red lines. Look at the large version of the photo, there are all sorts of similar lines crossing the surface in the same way.
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posted on
07/29/2015 11:55:03 AM PDT
by
Talisker
(One who commands, must obey.)
To: G Larry
Yup. Crayons on the wall.
Been there, cleaned that.
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posted on
07/29/2015 11:55:56 AM PDT
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BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
Your grandkids are drawing with crayons on the monitor?
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posted on
07/29/2015 11:56:25 AM PDT
by
Kirkwood
(Zombie Hunter)
To: BenLurkin
I had a dog once who’d - maybe some moon creature?
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posted on
07/29/2015 11:57:34 AM PDT
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SkyDancer
("Help Me Dad" Kathryn Steinle shot and killed by a five-time deported illegal.)
To: BenLurkin
They look like red streaks on the moon’s surface to me (SARC)
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07/29/2015 11:58:48 AM PDT
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sevinufnine
(A moderately bad man knows he is not very good. A thoroughly bad man thinks he's alright. C.S. Lewis)
To: BenLurkin
Fractured crust, fluid underneath leaked out and refroze. Could be like that for a billion years without change.
Or, my Children’s Librarian had a summer project with the kids. It’s the same color scheme as the carpet in the Kid’s area after the last event.
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07/29/2015 12:01:35 PM PDT
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Conan the Librarian
(The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
To: left that other site
If you’ve got scarlet streaks on your Tethys,
it means you have an STD and need to see a doctor.
FAST!
Solar Transmitted Disease.
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posted on
07/29/2015 12:02:25 PM PDT
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tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: Dr. Thorne
My goodness! A veritable Monte-Christo!
And here I was thinking they wath tethys' tethys, what keepth tethys togethys.
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07/29/2015 12:03:44 PM PDT
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golux
To: tet68
I don’t have Tethys.
I have Ovaryths.
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07/29/2015 12:04:49 PM PDT
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left that other site
(You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
To: SkyDancer
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07/29/2015 12:09:11 PM PDT
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Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
(Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
To: Dr. Thorne
To: left that other site
HOORAY, BEER!
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07/29/2015 12:13:18 PM PDT
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Rodamala
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