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Best Images Yet Of Saturn's Moon Titan

Posted by timothy on from the spaceporn dept.

DoraLives writes "During recent commissioning observations of a new instrument designed for a completely different purpose, the European Southern Observatory managed to grab the best imagery yet of Saturn's largest moon. Although the imagery bears more than just a passing resemblance to some of the quainter maps of other planets there's no denying the superb, sub tenth arcsecond, resolution of the new images. And of course, if that's not good enough, they're sending a a little something to land on Titan next January. Should be interesting."

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  1. Re:Focus! by microwave_EE · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So...You're saying that the Hubble ain't exactly a "diffraction limited system"?

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  2. yes...but... by Polkyb · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Like the article says...

    ...these new observations will be most useful for the planning of the delivery of the Huygens probe - now approaching the Saturn system on the NASA/ESA Cassini spacecraft and scheduled for descent to Titan's surface in early 2005.

    Some information, whatever the quality, is ALWAYS better than no information at all

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  3. Didn't they... by Polkyb · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ...Go to Saturn in the book, where Dave encountered the monolyth in between Titan and Saturn...?

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  4. in the end... by crayz · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...they're just hunks of rock or gas or whatever moving around according to the laws of physics. What we call them is just what we find most preferable. The universe couldn't care less

  5. Re:USA by meringuoid · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And if it wasn't for the Germans we'd all be speaking French. Your point was?

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