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Titan's Surface Revealed

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i-can-see-my-house-from-here dept.

MattKeeler writes "NASA's running a story on the recent findings of Cassini, the satellite orbiting Titan, one of Saturn's giant moons. New images reveal details of the moon's surface and a variety of materials that cover it."

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  1. I love articles like this... by NeoGeo64 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Because I like reading about space exploration, and the fact that NASA's webserver can't be slashdotted.

  2. Cassini is Orbiting SATURN by grondak · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Come on.

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  3. Three times redder than they human eye can see?!?! by sbaker · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "Near-infrared colors, some three times redder than the human eye can see"

    What the fsck does that mean?

    Some of the wavelengths are three times as long as 'Red'?

    Visible 'red' light is around .65 to maybe .75 micrometers. So are they are saying 2.1um or so?

    I do wish these articles would just say what they mean and not try to make it seem more 'amazing' with fuzzy statements like that. It's like "WOW! THREE TIMES REDDER!" - when in fact, near IR is nothing special - most cheap camcorders can take pretty good pictures in that frequency range.

    Ack!

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