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Dazzling Views Show Saturn Moon Titan's Surface Like Never Before
Space.com ^
| July 19, 2018 01:42pm ET
| Mike Wall,
Posted on 07/19/2018 3:12:20 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: entropy12
If we could swap our boring old pimply moon with Titan then surfers would have much bigger waves to ride.
To: who_would_fardels_bear
Yes! And we would have a much brighter “Tital” light, and I could play golf at night lol..
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posted on
07/19/2018 4:07:51 PM PDT
by
entropy12
(1 Mil Daca is the shining object to hide 30 mil low quality LEGAL immigrants in last 25 years)
To: TheZMan
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posted on
07/19/2018 4:16:57 PM PDT
by
MHGinTN
(A dispensational perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
To: scottinoc
...when I was in school there were just 5 or so...Well, Galileo hadn't perfected his best telescope yet.
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posted on
07/19/2018 4:22:46 PM PDT
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Rinnwald
To: Vic S
Methane and natural gas are created in the mantle.In some cases.
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posted on
07/19/2018 4:34:32 PM PDT
by
onedoug
To: BenLurkin
To: Rinnwald
Galileo discovered the biggest four moons (the Galilean Moons). A fifth moon was not discovered until the end of the 19th Century. By the 1970s, there were only a dozen known moons. By the end of the 20th Century, there were only 15 or 16 known moons. The number has grown exponentially since then. Most of these are just big chunks of ice or rock.
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posted on
07/19/2018 4:45:02 PM PDT
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Bubba_Leroy
(The Obamanation has ended!)
To: Vic S
So landing a rocket spewing burning hydrozine out its tailpipe should be OK?
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posted on
07/19/2018 5:04:22 PM PDT
by
Delta 21
(Splodeyhead is the only cure for MAGAphobia)
To: Bubba_Leroy
By the end of the 20th Century, there were only 15 or 16 known moons. The number has grown exponentially since then. Most of these are just big chunks of ice or rock.I just checked, the current count for Jupiter is 79, though 5 have been lost since their discovery. Saturn's count is 62, not including ring particles.
To: ExGeeEye
I guess nobody better light a match near it. Paradoxically, that might not be a problem. Titan's atmosphere contains almost no oxygen, so the methane, ethane, and other "flammable" hydrocarbons might not be able to ignite.
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posted on
07/19/2018 5:13:24 PM PDT
by
IronJack
To: Delta 21
Not a problem as there is virtually no oxygen in the atmosphere. Manned (aka “crewed” in current parlance) exploration would be dangerous though as the surface pressure is higher than on earth, any leak in a space suit, spacecraft crew compartment or habitat would let in explosive gas.
To: Delta 21
So landing a rocket spewing burning hydrozine out its tailpipe should be OK?
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posted on
07/19/2018 5:33:18 PM PDT
by
Flick Lives
(Suddenly someone'll say, like, plate, or shrimp, or plate o' shrimp out of the blue, no explanation.)
To: BenLurkin
Looks like there’s a lot of easily minable gold.
To: ExGeeEye
If you think that’s Saturn itself is almost pure hydrogen, If that baby ever blew up, man it’s all over. Let that be a warning folks, no smoking in space!
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07/19/2018 6:00:58 PM PDT
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jmacusa
(Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
To: Rio
“It makes our moon look pretty boring.”
Those might be artificial or exaggerated colors.
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
07/19/2018 6:02:40 PM PDT
by
sauropod
(I am His and He is mine. #FreeTommy)
To: ExGeeEye
Nothing will happen if you light a match. Because Titan has no oxygen to sustain a flame.
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
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posted on
07/19/2018 7:40:27 PM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(The New York Times is so openly dishonest, even their crossword puzzles lie.)
To: Lazamataz
To: BenLurkin
It reminds me of Sarumans seeing stone.
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posted on
07/19/2018 8:57:20 PM PDT
by
Crucial
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