TO ANY AND ALL GREETINGS I AM HURAKAN AND YOU ARE NOT FROMTHIS PLANET EARTH ANYMORE THAN I..HURAKAN THE ALLMIGHTY WIND THE HEART OF HEVEN WE SHALL ATTEMPT ONCE MORE TO STABLIZE THE HUMAN RACE TO STOP THE GENOCIDE IN PROGRESS ALL AROUND THIS SPHERE YOU CALL EARTH YOUR HOME, YOU ARE INVADERS.THE EARTH IS ALIVE AND WELL AS ARE YOU SO TOO AM I AN ALIEN ON AND ALIEN WORLD , THIS IS NOT WHERE PROJECT SETTI EXPECTED TO HEAR FROM EXTERRISTIAL INTELLIGENCE ON EARTH ITSELF...
All the recent revelations about Titan's polar regions prompts me to ask whether you have considered publishing versions of your mosaic maps in polar (stereographic?) hemisphere format? I see something has been done for the 'interesting' part of Enceladus. How about a Titan Southern Hemisphere one?
The images of Titan's lakes,seas are amazing! Don't know if they are posted on CYCLOPS,yet..I am posting this here as I watch the color images on NASA tv and want the rest of you to know they are everything you'd expect from Cassini and more! Thanks for the 'stunningness' of it all.
Planetfall .... Patience, patience. Any day now.
Had anyone asked, I would have ponied up for color film before the expedition launched, c'mon guys...
Ph.... Though there was a time when Voyager first flew by Titan that it was believed there might be liquid nitrogen on the surface (and I can tell you that on that day I felt like I was in the middle of a science fiction movie), we now know the conditions aren't right for nitrogen to be liquid. However, you are right to be skeptical about liquids on the surface, because the definitive evidence -- sighting of a specular reflection -- has not been observed yet. Unfortunately, it is quite difficult to see a specular reflection at the poles, so it's not clear we'll be in the right geometry to see such a thing from the `lakes and seas' near the poles.
What is it about Titan ? Mars is just strange. Europa holds mysteries. The other planets have their own grandeur. But Titan seems to illicit feelings of a real "Strange New World" in our solar system. Maybe it's the realisation that one day we will find a "strange new world" OUT THERE, in the back of our minds, that makes Titan so compelling. [Moves to science station].
DJBarney
With all respect, am still not convinced that Titan has lakes of liqid Methaan-ethaan....even when i found posible the source of that methaan *Vulcanic* (i goted the message that time Mis Carolyn)
I perferm more lakes of liqid nitrogen then i do methaan.
If you see the temps on Titan, between minus 165 c and minus 195 c, in this case liqid nitrogen and methaan are both posible.
I hope the treat is icecream! ( Just Kidding but.. ) Then again just what is that?
Huh? Mystery of the lakes.. if that is what it really is.. ?
Kevin.. 2nd shift no doubt that there is a lot of it on Titian.. what do you
think? Go Cassini..!!!
Hmmm, interesting... Overlap with RADAR perhaps?
Folks....you all are in for a treat. There's more to come on this story, perhaps next week. Stay tuned.
@Jules
Yep, that's what I was thinking of. Seeing the the lake slowly shrinking, clouds forming, clouds getting transported and perhaps even see a new lake being filled somewhere on the southern hemisphere. I'm afraid we'll need the extended-extended mission for that though :/
I just love active worlds like Titan, Io and Europa :)
A nice target for Cassini's RADAR, assuming it has not surveyed the zone yet.
A nice target for Cassini's RADAR, assuming it has not surveyed the zone.
It's just cosmic ray noise they didn't clean out from the image. It's pretty much there in every raw image to a different extent, depending on exposure duration and radiation environment the spacecraft is in.
Has Titan suddenly become translucent? It's as if the stars are shining THROUGH Titan (or is there some mundane explanation for those white dots?)
The lake will literaly go up in clouds, I guess :)
It will be interesting to see what will happen to the lake now that northern summer is comming on Titan.
