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01-18-2005, 12:00 AM
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Titan
Has anyone been following the landing of the Hugyens probe on the surface of Titan? Titan is a moon of Saturn. It is larger than some of the planets and has an atmosphere. The pictures show rivers, lakes, clouds and rocky shores. But Titan's surface temperature is 260 below zero Farenheit. The rivers and lakes and clouds are not water but methane and ethane. The stones are mostly water and some tar. At that temperature ice freezes hard as steel. On Titan it rains liquid methane and the rivers take it on down to the seas.
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01-18-2005, 04:32 AM
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Yeah. Gettin' it back is the trick.
840 million miles away. How long did it take the vehicle to get from earth to Saturn's orbit?
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01-18-2005, 10:58 AM
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Since I'm not a real brainiac are the lakes and rivers made of gas. Wow lets get some of that stuff back here on earth, let me see I will be about 80 years old when that happens.
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01-19-2005, 01:35 PM
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Dang! Eight years.
And eight more years for a return to earth. If we do any manned missions to Titan, I hope they take along some good books to read. :re: Lessee...840 million miles from the sun...that makes it 747 million miles from earth. Light (and radio waves) travel at 86,242 miles per second, so...our signals to Huygens take about two and a half hours to get there. Wow! :ek:
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01-19-2005, 01:52 PM
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It is so cold there that methane and ethane are in liquid form. they evaporate like water does on earth and form clouds which rain methane and ethane back. There are lakes and rivers with the stuff.
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01-19-2005, 02:02 PM
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Rivers, clouds and a shoreline.
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01-19-2005, 02:22 PM
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I guess 840 million is better than a lightyear. If we're gonna bring it back, we ought to bring enough to last another 16 years. Just think, if we make a vehicle capable of running on ethane, it could use it to fuel its way back and forth. Too easy though. The government would want a sizable chunk, taxes would go up and...you know the rest
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