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anth
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# Posted: 16 Dec 2006 03:23
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The Cassini probe has made another fly-past of Saturn's moon "Titan".



Flying within 600 miles of the planet.

Cassini has been making regular fly-psts to map, study, and image Titan.

Slowly this world is being uncovered. Amazingly, i think we've learned as much, if not more from cassini's space based views than we did from the lander portion of the mission, the Huygen's lander.

An amazing fact when you consider the surface of Titan is totaly shrouded in a permanent orange haze. Cassini's onboard equipment can cut through that haze with radar imaging, sending back views of the surface.

Lakes, and seas of a substance believed to be Hydro carbons have been imaged. Aswell as ice mountains and volcano's. Rivers and delta's have also been spotted. Many other features too, which are carved into Titan, or created by its active "weather cycles" of snow, rain, and wind.

Titan is an amazing world. Strange and mysterious.

here are the latest fly-by mission views...



This image set was taken at a distance of 15,000 kilometers (9,300 miles) from Titan and shows two views of an area riddled by mountain ranges that were probably produced by tectonic forces.

Near the bottom of the right image, a band of bright clouds is seen. These clouds are probably produced when gaseous methane in Titan's atmosphere cools and condenses into methane fog as Titan's winds drive air over the mountains. It was once thought that these recurring clouds were produced by volcanic activity on Titan, but this image calls that idea into question.



This composite image shows a massive mountain range running just south of Titan's equator. Near the center of the image, the mountain range runs from southeast to northwest. It is about 150 kilometers long (93 miles) and 30 kilometers (19 miles) wide and about 1.5 kilometers (nearly a mile) high. This range, and smaller ranges to the west and east of the main range, probably results from material welling up below as the crust of Titan is pulled apart by tectonic forces.



cmdr_worf
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# Posted: 16 Dec 2006 08:51
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What's the betting that Esso or BP will be there for the fossil fuels before the end of the century?

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