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These mosaics of the Saturn moon Titan's surface were constructed using data gathered over 13 years by the Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer instrument aboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Nantes/University of Arizona

1 posted on 07/19/2018 3:12:20 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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It makes our moon look pretty boring.


2 posted on 07/19/2018 3:16:32 PM PDT by Rio (I was deplorable when deplorable wasn't cool.)
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Looks like a moldy orange.


3 posted on 07/19/2018 3:26:21 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("The Russians escaped while we weren't watching them ... like Russians will.")
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Titan is an interesting moon (or planet). Titan has seas of methane (and ethane). Ethane is flamable and natural gas is 95.2% methane. The second largest component of natural gas is ethane (then propane).

I suppose since natural gas (and its liquid for petroleum) are fossil fuels, there must be lots of dead dinos on Titan. /sarc

Methane and natural gas are created in the mantle.


7 posted on 07/19/2018 3:30:31 PM PDT by Vic S
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Earth (Still Our Only Home) - Jeff Beck and Jan Hammer live
8 posted on 07/19/2018 3:33:52 PM PDT by DoodleBob
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Pretty awesome. I saw on the news crawl yesterday that they just found a few more moons of Jupiter. There’s dozens of them, and when I was in school there were just 5 or so IIRC


10 posted on 07/19/2018 3:34:36 PM PDT by scottinoc
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They look like the jaw breakers I used to buy when I was a kid.......


12 posted on 07/19/2018 3:35:33 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (I once found a needle in a haystack but it wasn't the one I was looking for...)
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And yet there are scientists,including some astronomers,who are *convinced* that there's no God.
14 posted on 07/19/2018 3:36:34 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (You Say "White Privilege"...I Say "Protestant Work Ethic")
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To: BenLurkin

Stunning details!


16 posted on 07/19/2018 3:40:53 PM PDT by entropy12 (1 Mil Daca is the shining object to hide 30 mil low quality LEGAL immigrants in last 25 years)
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Titan is 3200 miles in diameter, versus earth’s 8000 miles. So it is not a small object in our solar system for sure.


17 posted on 07/19/2018 3:44:37 PM PDT by entropy12 (1 Mil Daca is the shining object to hide 30 mil low quality LEGAL immigrants in last 25 years)
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Big one.
18 posted on 07/19/2018 3:45:30 PM PDT by TheZMan (I am a secessionist.)
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To: BenLurkin

thanks Ben


26 posted on 07/19/2018 4:38:55 PM PDT by CaliforniaCraftBeer
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Looks like there’s a lot of easily minable gold.


33 posted on 07/19/2018 5:58:02 PM PDT by Karl Spooner ( ·)
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Bkmk


36 posted on 07/19/2018 6:02:40 PM PDT by sauropod (I am His and He is mine. #FreeTommy)
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To: BenLurkin

It reminds me of Saruman’s seeing stone.


40 posted on 07/19/2018 8:57:20 PM PDT by Crucial
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Has anyone on the left blamed Trump for all this yet?


41 posted on 07/19/2018 9:14:10 PM PDT by Bullish (My tagline is here. you just can't see it.)
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allowing the instrument to see through the thick Titanic haze

If they’d had one of those, all those people would have
reached New York safely...


47 posted on 07/20/2018 5:09:49 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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What? No Sirens? I don't see any Sirens! Where are the Sirens?


50 posted on 07/20/2018 6:25:57 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Get in the Spirit! The Spirit of '76!)
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Beautiful


56 posted on 07/20/2018 11:25:24 PM PDT by steelyourfaith (MAGA)
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