pics from another world!

[Leda EmBorr]

Wow, man... this is just so cool.

Images from the recently touched down Huygens probe show what's hidden under Titan's orange clouds!

This just blows me away! Check out these pics:
www.space.com/missionlaunches/huygens_images_050114.html

Titan is the second largest satellite in the Sol system behind Jupiter's Ganymede and is larger than the planet Mercury. It can be readily seen when observing Saturn with even the smallest telescope, and larger scopes reveal it's orange hue. The thick atmosphere is mainly nitrogen and methane, and has been described as "photochemical smog". Now we finally get to see what lies beneath!

;D

[Jauhzmynn Enz]

Wow.:-) THat is very cool. Hopefully, we'll see some color ones.

[Mon-Jas Charan]

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This is really exciting ... I can't wait for Deep Impact.

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[Ani-Chay Pinn]

I am so, so, soooooo glad that the Huygens probe made it! It took 7 years to get out there, but it was well worth the wait. And the probe lasted a couple of hours on the surface, too. At -170 deg C, that's a pretty tough little robot. There will be more pictures....

[Jedimom/Cor-Al Gelkar]

Someone at NASA described it as looking like Creme Brulee. Now that's an image I can't keep outta my head.. a moon made ourt of creme brulee. And we all thought it was green cheese

[Ani-Chay Pinn]

And it's tangerine creme brulee, too. They've got color and a scale on the pictures now:

www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMTKR71Y3E_index_0.html

And I just had to mention this, since I didn't know what it was until I looked it up online.....

Crème Brûlée
Crème Brûlée is a French term for what the English refer to as Burnt Cream. The word brulee refers to dishes, such as custards, finished with a sugar glaze.

This simple custard is cooked and cooled. A small amount of sugar is sprinkled on the top of the cooled custard and the sugar is caramelized using a small torch or beneath a broiler.

This classic custard inherits its' delicate flavor from the simple mixture of cream and eggs. Traditional creme brulee does not use any additional flavorings such as vanilla.

[Calaveylon Angavel]

That's sooo cool!
I went to NASA and the ESA websites and saw the interesting pictures. Wouldn't that be amazing if the scientists find that Titan has flowing liquid on its surface.
That would make Titan the second body in our Solar System to have flowing liquid on its surface. Scientists suspect that Ganymede might have vast oceans beneath its smooth surface, but the Voyager probes only visited briefly to study the planets and peek at the moons. The Voyagers weren't around long enough to confirm flowing liquid beneath Ganymede's surface.

[Leda EmBorr]

And they have sound on there too!

www.esa.int/esaCP/SEM85Q71Y3E_index_0.html

The radar conversation and the acoustic recording from outside the spacecraft during decent!

[Leda EmBorr]

And yeah... deep impact is next! ;D

The current "urban-rumor" is that the exploratory mission is a cover-up for the real reason for landing on the comet... to steer it off of a collision course with earth! lol!