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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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 Posted - 05/05/2006 : 14:28:56
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NASA has published some spectacular images from the Cassini and Huygens probes of Saturn's moon, Titan. quote:
Until a couple of years ago, scientists thought the dark equatorial regions of Titan might be liquid oceans. New radar evidence shows they are seas -- but seas of sand dunes like those in the Arabian or Namibian Deserts. A University of Arizona Cassini radar team member and colleagues report the findings in Science (May 5).
For the full story see the : University of Arizona press release .
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Image above: Cassini radar sees sand dunes on Saturn's giant moon Titan (upper photo) that are sculpted like Namibian sand dunes on Earth (lower photo). The bright features in the upper radar photo are not clouds but topographic features among the dunes.
Image credit: NASA/JPL - upper photo; NASA/JSC - lower photo
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Ghost_Skeptic
SFN Regular
Canada
510 Posts |
Posted - 05/05/2006 : 21:26:30 [Permalink]
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| Quirks and Quarks on CBC Radio One will have an item on this on Saturday. It is on at noon local time. If you are out of AM radio range of Canada, you can also listen on the net in the time zone of your choice. MP3 and real audio files as well as a few links will be available on the Quirks and Quarks Website Saturday afternoon. |
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Michael Mozina
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 05/06/2006 : 15:17:33 [Permalink]
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Wonderful video, Michael! Thanks for the link.
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Ghost_Skeptic
SFN Regular
Canada
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Posted - 05/07/2006 : 01:33:22 [Permalink]
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Here is the an MP3 of Jani Radebaugh, a planetary scientist at the University of Arizona talking about the sand dunes on Titan.
Also University of Arizona Press Release |
"You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink. / You can send a kid to college but you can't make him think." - B.B. King
History is made by stupid people - The Arrogant Worms
"The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism." - William Osler
"Religion is the natural home of the psychopath" - Pat Condell
"The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter" - Thomas Jefferson |
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