Posted on 01/19/2025 10:59:30 AM PST by MtnClimber
Explanation: What would it look like to land on Saturn's moon Titan? The European Space Agency's Huygens probe set down on the Solar System's cloudiest moon in 2005, and a time-lapse video of its descent images was created. Huygens separated from the robotic Cassini spacecraft soon after it achieved orbit around Saturn in late 2004 and began approaching Titan. For two hours after arriving, Huygens plummeted toward Titan's surface, recording at first only the shrouded moon's opaque atmosphere. The computerized truck-tire sized probe soon deployed a parachute to slow its descent, pierced the thick clouds, and began transmitting images of a strange surface far below never before seen in visible light. Landing in a dried sea and surviving for 90 minutes, Huygen's returned unique images of a strange plain of dark sandy soil strewn with smooth, bright, fist-sized rocks of ice.
Today's image is a very interesting video at the source link.
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Today's image is a very interesting video at the source link.
About time we had a decent movie.
Oh, you said descent movie.
Wow
All the liquid methane you can ask for, only it’s a billion miles away. It’s the only place in the solar system with a solid surface and an atmosphere thicker than earth’s. It’s even the same composition as earth’s except for the lack of oxygen.
With all that methane around,likely not a good idea to introduce oxygen. Just saying.
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Of course I’m forgetting Venus. What I mean is... Oh never mind.
Yeah, if there was oxygen, it wouldn’t be around long.
” It’s the only place in the solar system with a solid surface and an atmosphere thicker than earth’s. “
Venus???
After the burnout, lots of water and CO2, would be a great time to fly by and drop a bag of seeds.
Absolutely amazing!
Amazing. What a time to be alive. Methane liquifies at -265F.
Yes, Venus. We’ll likely never be able to set foot on the surface of Venus, though. It would take a deep sea diving suit capable of withstanding about 900°F.
Most astronomers don’t believe in God
I know, I worked with them for ten years at what was then the worlds largest optical Observatory.
Christians were very rare there.
I’m a Christian(maybe not the best example)
but WE being Earth are unique in the observable universe, hands down.
God created us and we are made in HIS image, on a world hospitable to our physiology, that is unique, as far we have observed.
Not saying that God put his eggs “all in one basket”.
But in making kids you want them to be like you when they mature- Hopefully better.
That is a very mammal trait, but I suspect every alien in the universe that is a parent would be the same.
God is our parent.
But we could have “flaming globes”! (Seinfeld reference, of course).
The sad part was they didn’t have the Plutonium needed for a nuclear probe so after years and years they only got 2 hours worth of data .
Freakin’ awesome!!
The preponderance of atheists in science is pretty much a modern gatekeeping thing. Atheists like to believe that science somehow disproves God, and that Christians should be kept out of it. But it was Christians who practically invented science, and a lot of them monks. Kepler is thought of as the first astronomer. Then there’s Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, etc. The situation was reversed back then, with Christians forming the majority of scientists.
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