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Odd Spot on Titan Baffles Scientists
NASA ^
| 05-25-05
| Carolina Martinez
Posted on 05/30/2005 3:51:45 PM PDT by Imperialist
Saturn's moon Titan shows an unusual bright spot that has scientists mystified. The spot, approximately the size and shape of West Virginia, is just southeast of the bright region called Xanadu and is visible to multiple instruments on the Cassini spacecraft.
The 483-kilometer-wide (300-mile) region may be a "hot" spot -- an area possibly warmed by a recent asteroid impact or by a mixture of water ice and ammonia from a warm interior, oozing out of an ice volcano onto colder surrounding terrain. Other possibilities for the unusual bright spot include landscape features holding clouds in place or unusual materials on the surface.
(Excerpt) Read more at nasa.gov ...
TOPICS: News/Current Events; Technical
KEYWORDS: callingartbell; cassini; robertbyrd; saturn; space; titan; xanadu
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To: Imperialist
CBS calling another blue state for Kerry?
To: Imperialist
Somebody spilled a really big bowl of primordial soup?
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posted on
05/30/2005 4:56:31 PM PDT
by
wyattearp
(The best weapon to have in a gunfight is a shotgun - preferably from ambush.)
To: Imperialist
It's the end I tell you! It'll have a geater impact on the planet earth than France's adoption of hairy armpits.
To: Tennessee_Bob
To: Imperialist
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posted on
05/30/2005 5:08:44 PM PDT
by
Reconray
To: Tennessee_Bob
You could be right. I thought it might be a be a new casino. Farrrr oouuuuttttt!
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posted on
05/30/2005 5:27:32 PM PDT
by
wizr
(Freedom ain't free.)
To: Tennessee_Bob
It's a Motel Six - they've left the lights on for us. Heeheehee......hawhawhawhawhaw.......*snicker*......... :-p
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posted on
05/30/2005 5:33:54 PM PDT
by
Viking2002
(.............needs more cowbell.)
To: Larry Lucido
"CBS calling another blue state for Kerry?"(Larry Lucido)
No worries, SeeBS will have to change their call when the actual results come in. Exit polls are no good.
To: SteveMcKing
"It could onlt be an alien city. No other possiblity."
Yes, after centuries indian smoke signals still in use
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posted on
05/30/2005 6:00:31 PM PDT
by
SunnySide
(Ephes2:8 ByGraceYou'veBeenSavedThruFaithAGiftOfGodSoNoOneCanBoast)
To: Imperialist
southeast of the bright region called Xanadu Oh no. Somebody named a region of Titan after a crappy Olivia Newton John movie! Those astronomers really need to get out more.
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posted on
05/30/2005 6:04:38 PM PDT
by
Drew68
(IYAOYAS! Semper Gumby!)
To: Imperialist
"Take me home, Titan roads, to the place where I belong..."
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posted on
05/30/2005 6:05:13 PM PDT
by
WestVirginiaRebel
(Carnac: A siren, a baby and a liberal. Answer: Name three things that whine.)
To: Imperialist
The Sirens turned on the porch light.
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posted on
05/30/2005 6:24:14 PM PDT
by
MrBambaLaMamba
(Buy 'Allah' brand urinal cakes - If you can't kill the enemy at least you can piss on their god)
To: Imperialist
The spot, approximately the size and shape of West Virginia, is just southeast of the bright region called Xanadu . . .Other possibilities for the unusual bright spot include landscape features holding clouds in place or unusual materials on the surface.
I'm surprised a stately pleasure-dome didn't make the list. Is the sacred river Alph nearby?
To: RansomOttawa
"Is the sacred river Alph nearby?"(RansomOttawa)
LOL, yes, it is, and it supplies the water for the moat!
To: Trinity5
Hmmm...
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posted on
05/30/2005 9:15:11 PM PDT
by
beezdotcom
(I'm usually either right or wrong...)
To: Imperialist
The spot, approximately the size and shape of West Virginia, is just southeast of the bright region called Xanadu..."In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure dome decree..."
Apologies to Coleridge.
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posted on
05/30/2005 9:28:38 PM PDT
by
Charles H. (The_r0nin)
(Still teaching... or a reasonable facsimile thereof...)
To: RansomOttawa
Arrrgh! You beat me to it...
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posted on
05/30/2005 9:29:20 PM PDT
by
Charles H. (The_r0nin)
(Still teaching... or a reasonable facsimile thereof...)
To: Eighth Square
The French don't adopt hairy armpits, they are born with them.
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posted on
05/30/2005 10:51:23 PM PDT
by
U S Army EOD
(My US Army daughter out shot everybody in her basic training company.)
To: Imperialist
Well...must be Robert Byrd's hometown...
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posted on
05/31/2005 6:17:18 AM PDT
by
RockinRight
(Conservatism is common sense, liberalism is just senseless.)
To: Imperialist
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