Cassini's Robot Lab Successfully Separates

toomanyairmiles writes "The BBC has an article indicating NASA's Cassini probe has successfully launched its robot lab on its three-week journey into the atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan. 'Such is the chemistry and temperature (-180C) on Titan that scientists suspect it may harbour lakes, even great seas, of methane or ethane.' Seemingly we have very little idea of what we'll find there: 'Even Cassini's remarkable instruments have struggled to get at the facts. Scientists can see dark and bright regions on the surface, but quite what they represent no one is really sure.'"

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Ever see 2010?

[Faust7]

Scientists can see dark and bright regions on the surface, but quite what they represent no one is really sure.

My money's on the dark regions being a plague of multiplying monoliths. Cover your eyes...

Demonic discovery?

[Xentropy]

I find the random insertion by /. of a large Doom 3 ad (consisting of a closeup of a demonic figure) right after the text of this article an amusing irony. Just what DO we expect to find down there?

opinions

[morcheeba]

Even Cassini's remarkable instruments have struggled to get at the facts.

From what I heard, the instruments were just giving their opinions, ruminations, and vague rumors. One even broke into song, which, from a scientific viewpoint, yielded very little hard data...