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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. Woah by mfh · · Score: 3, Interesting

    For a millisecond, I thought I was looking at a picture of an inhabitable world. That's one misleading photo, imho... Not to mention, heavily pixilated.

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    1. Re:Woah by pyr0 · · Score: 3, Interesting

      How is the photo misleading? Also, (moderators) how is this interesting? False-color spectrographic images are pretty standard for this sort of thing. The article clearly states this fact.

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  2. Source of life by underpar · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The idea of Titan holding the key to our understanding of pre-life earth has always been interesting, but a little too optimistic.

    I mean, isn't Europa the one that's supposed to develop life?

  3. solaris by Doc+Ruby · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Vast, complex hydrocarbon rafts in a methane sea... could we have an embryonic Solaris in our system? Or not so embryonic? These dreams... where do they come from...

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