30 November 2005
Images from the DISR Side-Looking Imager and from the Medium Resolution Imager, acquired after landing, were merged to produce this image. The horizon’s position implies a pitch of the DISR, nose-upward, by 1-2° with no measurable roll. ‘Stones’ in the foreground are 10-15 cm in size, presumably made of water ice, and these lie on a darker, finer-grained substrate.
A region with a relatively low number of rocks lies between clusters of rocks in the foreground and the background and matches the general orientation of channel-like features in the panorama view from 1.2 km (3rd image in article). The scene evokes the possibility of a dry lakebed.
Credits: ESA/NASA/University of Arizona
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2 posted on
11/30/2005 10:08:54 AM PST by
NormsRevenge
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Saturn's largest moon has dramatic weather, geological activity (Titan) Well, at least we'll be able to make small talk with the aliens when we meet. lol
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Images from the DISR Side-Looking Imager and from the Medium Resolution Imager, acquired after landing, were merged to produce this image. What a fantastic thing to ponder. We are indeed living in marvelous times. Thanks for the post!
4 posted on
11/30/2005 10:13:50 AM PST by
COBOL2Java
(The Katrina Media never gets anything right, so why should I believe them?)
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Maybe we could get all the leftists and French (but I'm being redundant) to move there?
5 posted on
11/30/2005 10:14:31 AM PST by
clee1
(We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
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They said there was no reason to believe Titan's methane is a product of biological activity. Well, that would rule out my 3-alarm chili.
(sorry, couldn't resist) :0)
6 posted on
11/30/2005 10:14:59 AM PST by
COBOL2Java
(The Katrina Media never gets anything right, so why should I believe them?)
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"The scene evokes the possibility of a dry lakebed."
Actually, in the photo, it looks like the rocks are emersed in about 1" of liquid water, with several inches in the foreground. You can even see ripples in the "water." Of course, they don't have liquid water on Titan. Maybe liquid methane, or maybe just the poor graphics.
7 posted on
11/30/2005 10:16:36 AM PST by
Brilliant
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10 posted on
11/30/2005 10:18:07 AM PST by
HOTTIEBOY
(Maybe in your house. Not in mine.)
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12 posted on
11/30/2005 10:22:27 AM PST by
HOTTIEBOY
(Maybe in your house. Not in mine.)
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I don't mean to complain, but if you're going to bother sending a camera 800,000,000 miles from earth, couldn't you send a camera that takes really excellent color photographs?
14 posted on
11/30/2005 10:28:32 AM PST by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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15 posted on
11/30/2005 10:28:32 AM PST by
DoctorMichael
(The Fourth-Estate is a Fifth-Column!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
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Interesting implications vis a vis possible origins of hydrocarbons here on Earth.
16 posted on
11/30/2005 10:33:49 AM PST by
GOP_1900AD
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Bush's fault.
18 posted on
11/30/2005 10:35:37 AM PST by
Vaquero
("An armed society is a polite society" R. A. Heinlein)
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Methane, meet Lightning.
Without free oxygen, all you get are some life precursors: tar, black sticky stuff.
23 posted on
11/30/2005 10:44:40 AM PST by
RightWhale
(Repeal the law of the excluded middle)
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Saturn's largest moon has dramatic weather, geological activity I blame Bush...
39 posted on
11/30/2005 11:14:52 AM PST by
talleyman
(Who would Osamma vote for?)
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