Image of Saturns moon Titan Enhanced

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I used my photoshop skills to create this enhancement of the first image in from huygins:

http://www.exoeight.net/titan.tif

thought you guys would like to see this, history in the making.

you can see ripples! that's amazing.... and that's NOT water ;)
 
exoeight said:
I used my photoshop skills to create this enhancement of the first image in from huygins:

http://www.exoeight.net/titan.tif

thought you guys would like to see this, history in the making.

you can see ripples! that's amazing.... and that's NOT water ;)
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Yep not water, its a sea of strawberry flavored chocolate.

Looks good I suppose.

When will they be showing better quality images?
 
It's not water, it's methane or something.

Probably once they recieve them. Takes 66 minutes for the signal to travel from Titan to Earth. Talk about a laggy modem.
 
The Dark Elf said:
Yep not water, its a sea of strawberry flavored chocolate.

Looks good I suppose.

When will they be showing better quality images?
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When Titan comes closer. This pic is taken one light hour away with seven year old equipment.
 
So just say you did light a match on titan...would it become a mini sun or somethin? :laugh:
 
I'm not sure there's a lot of oxygen there... so no, no fire.
 
Bieng as its so cold also it would be impossible to light! :( Imagine if you could... biggest firecracker in history!
 
It would ignite if there were oxygen (which I believe there isn't), and enough heat to start a chain reaction.

Oceans of methane, that's so amazing. Imagine what standing on the surface would be like, looking across the ocean. What does liquid methane look like? Like water, or what?
 
kirovman said:
It would ignite if there were oxygen (which I believe there isn't), and enough heat to start a chain reaction.

Oceans of methane, that's so amazing. Imagine what standing on the surface would be like, looking across the ocean. What does liquid methane look like? Like water, or what?
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Water steam looks like methane. Liquid methane should look like water or maybe like KFC BBQ sauce.
 
Any place that is cold enough to keep a gas in a liquid state, is too damned cold for me! Methane oceans, hmmmmm ,ya think maybe some Ichthyosaurs could be frolicking around down there?
 
TheAmazingRando said:
Methane ignites better than oxygen.
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Typical Vanu noob statement there :P

Remember the fire triangle you DIDN'T learn in science?

You need OXYGEN, FUEL and IGNITION before anything burns. Methane is a fuel, you still need oxygen and ignition.

Back on topic though, I can't believe they spent that much money jsut for a couple of photos. Why didn't they put a rover in there too?
 
There's something so amazing about things like this... space, in general, I mean... we're so insignificant compared to it.
 
kirovman said:
It would ignite if there were oxygen (which I believe there isn't), and enough heat to start a chain reaction.

Oceans of methane, that's so amazing. Imagine what standing on the surface would be like, looking across the ocean. What does liquid methane look like? Like water, or what?
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like liquid methane..
 
MaxiKana said:
It's not water, it's methane or something.

Probably once they recieve them. Takes 66 minutes for the signal to travel from Titan to Earth. Talk about a laggy modem.
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Sheesh, imagine the ping if they set up a CS server.
 
lePobz said:
Typical Vanu noob statement there :P

Remember the fire triangle you DIDN'T learn in science?

You need OXYGEN, FUEL and IGNITION before anything burns. Methane is a fuel, you still need oxygen and ignition.
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That was my dumbass moment of the day...............scum :P
 
Ennui said:
There's something so amazing about things like this... space, in general, I mean... we're so insignificant compared to it.
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yep! lightyears and lightyears of planets. we're not even a speck of dust compared to all the things in space. it just gives me the feeling we're not alone.

yea. light up that planet .. :naughty: it would be nice to witness the big bang theory
 
dj_flameskull said:
yea. light up that planet .. :naughty: it would be nice to witness the big bang theory
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The Big Bang theory is a theory inwhich says a living organism was created when light struck a pond at a exact moment.

What the hell does that have to do with nuking a ocean of liquid methane on a distant planet?
 
AntiAnto said:
Water steam looks like methane. Liquid methane should look like water or maybe like KFC BBQ sauce.
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Just wonder whether it had a tinge of colour when reflecting sunlight though.

Like blue or green, or something. I imagine it's dielectric properties are a bit different to water's.
 
The Silhouette said:
The Big Bang theory is a theory inwhich says a living organism was created when light struck a pond at a exact moment.

What the hell does that have to do with nuking a ocean of liquid methane on a distant planet?
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Sarcasm?
 
I think we'll be living on Mars before we will be Titan
 
The Silhouette said:
The Big Bang theory is a theory inwhich says a living organism was created when light struck a pond at a exact moment.

What the hell does that have to do with nuking a ocean of liquid methane on a distant planet?
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Well it would be a big bang.
 
AntiAnto said:
Water steam looks like methane. Liquid methane should look like water or maybe like KFC BBQ sauce.
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You sooo made me hungry.
 
Ennui said:
There's something so amazing about things like this... space, in general, I mean... we're so insignificant compared to it.
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Very true. I was looking through a book of moon photos from the Apollo missions....wow. Just wow. Imagine standing on something that isn't Earth...




on topic.... Yeah... it's pretty amazing...

Color surface shot:
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/cassini/images/050115color.jpg



This composite was produced from images returned January 14 by ESA's Huygens probe during its successful descent to land on Titan. It shows a full 360-degree view around Huygens. The left-hand side, behind Huygens, shows a boundary between light and dark areas. The white streaks seen near this boundary could be ground 'fog', as they were not immediately visible from higher altitudes. As the probe descended, it drifted over a plateau (centre of image) and was heading towards its landing site in a dark area (right). From the drift of the probe, the wind speed has been estimated at around 6-7 kilometres per hour. These images were taken from an altitude of about 8 kilometres with a resolution of about 20 metres per pixel. Credits: ESA/NASA/University of Arizona
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http://www.spaceflightnow.com/cassini/images/050115mosaic.jpg

Sizes: http://www.spaceflightnow.com/cassini/images/050115sizes.jpg
 
The thing that fascinates me most about space isn't planets, its nebulae. They look simply amazing.
 
And I still have no idea how they work, even after watching so much Star Trek :S
 
The Silhouette said:
The Big Bang theory is a theory inwhich says a living organism was created when light struck a pond at a exact moment.
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The hell are you talking about? The Big Bang explains the Expansion of the Universe not how life started.
 
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