Posted on 11/30/2005 10:08:05 AM PST by NormsRevenge
30 November 2005
Images from the DISR Side-Looking Imager and from the Medium Resolution Imager, acquired after landing, were merged to produce this image. The horizons position implies a pitch of the DISR, nose-upward, by 1-2° with no measurable roll. Stones in the foreground are 10-15 cm in size, presumably made of water ice, and these lie on a darker, finer-grained substrate.
A region with a relatively low number of rocks lies between clusters of rocks in the foreground and the background and matches the general orientation of channel-like features in the panorama view from 1.2 km (3rd image in article). The scene evokes the possibility of a dry lakebed.
Credits: ESA/NASA/University of Arizona
More article/images
http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Results_from_Mars_Express_and_Huygens/SEM23TULWFE_1.html
Well, at least we'll be able to make small talk with the aliens when we meet. lol
What a fantastic thing to ponder. We are indeed living in marvelous times. Thanks for the post!
Maybe we could get all the leftists and French (but I'm being redundant) to move there?
Well, that would rule out my 3-alarm chili.
(sorry, couldn't resist) :0)
"The scene evokes the possibility of a dry lakebed."
Actually, in the photo, it looks like the rocks are emersed in about 1" of liquid water, with several inches in the foreground. You can even see ripples in the "water." Of course, they don't have liquid water on Titan. Maybe liquid methane, or maybe just the poor graphics.
Great info ... I love science, that is real science ... I imagine Bush will be somehow blamed for this too :)
Me: Mornin Zxaxnor.
Zxaxnor: Mornin Creek.
Me: beautiful day in'it?
Zxaxnor: Yep, only supposed to get up around -298 today.
Me: Sounds like a great day for you, the missus and 10 or 15 thousand of the larva to hit the beach down to methane lake.
Yeah, of course Bush is to blame. He's even affected the weather patterns on Titan.
Thanks!
I don't mean to complain, but if you're going to bother sending a camera 800,000,000 miles from earth, couldn't you send a camera that takes really excellent color photographs?
Cool! Bump!
Interesting implications vis a vis possible origins of hydrocarbons here on Earth.
The Huygens probe and its mother ship, Cassini are equipped with about a dozen optical cameras, not to mention various filtered radio cameras. The optical camera on Cassini is capable of 12,000,000pix resolution. 12 million.
Looks more like sort of gravel to me. And note the apparent wind scouring of this possible sediment around the one "rock." If indeed it's gravel and not sand, that is one heck of a wind that made such scouring.
The optical camera on Cassini is capable of 12,000,000pix resolution. 12 million.
I wasnt referring to the Cassini craft. That has produced stunning images.
I was wondering why we only get Zapruderish images from the surface of Titan:
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