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Originally posted by Geronimo
I'm surprised the horizon is so close and curved. that doesn't seem right for an object the size of titan.
I'm surprised the horizon is so close and curved. that doesn't seem right for an object the size of titan.
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That may have to do with the camera's perspective. In one of their test shots, it looked like Picacho peak was the entire planet Earth
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It's also on the Wikipedia entry already.Originally posted by Geronimo
good thing we posted the surface pic! ESA has taken the picture down
now the only picture that can be found is the earlier rivery looking one.
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On JPL they have a cool simulator that shows you the relative size of various objects from cassini at various points of the mission. When cassini is near titan saturn is huge but not sky filling huge. It's maybe 20 times the size of the moon from earth. The real issue isn't apparent size of the disk anyway. the thing that determines if light gets through would be apparent luminosity. Saturn is so much further from the sun that it's larger disk will be quite a bit dimmer overall than a full moon on earth.Originally posted by booger
but you know what. The close proximity of titan to the billion times larger saturn probably gauruntees you something gets through.Last edited by Geronimo; January 14, 2005, 17:11.Comment
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Lots of raw pics :
Didn't they only have room for about a thousand pics? That means that's all of them.Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing?
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I sure hope not, considering it's always from the same location.Originally posted by alva
Lots of raw pics :
Didn't they only have room for about a thousand pics? That means that's all of them.
Wasn't Huygens supposed to take pics during the descent?"I have been reading up on the universe and have come to the conclusion that the universe is a good thing." -- Dissident
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I think a lot of those are the same picture with different filters. I don't think you can add up those raw images to arrive at the total of 1000 pictures for the mission.Last edited by Geronimo; January 14, 2005, 17:12.Comment
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Hmph. Most of those images pretty much suck.Originally posted by alva
Lots of raw pics :
Didn't they only have room for about a thousand pics? That means that's all of them. But these are rich people's problems. 
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Incredible succes for this mission. It really is amazing what we can do.
There's a half-hour Review of the Day program coming up just now on NASA TV Webcast. It may present some more picture mosaics.Comment
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No space monsters?
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BTW, what we see in the surface pics are not rocks, but ice blocks, according to the ESA. Their size and distance are not known yet."I have been reading up on the universe and have come to the conclusion that the universe is a good thing." -- Dissident
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Within weeks they'll be re-opening the shipyards
And notifying the next of kin
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So, it is expected that there are whole seas or lakes of liquid hydrocarbones there. Do y'all understand what it meand? A real PLANET full of oil, a mere 10 AU away!
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Go looking for WMD?Originally posted by Spiffor
A real PLANET full of oil, a mere 10 AU away!
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Wow this is actually pretty damn cool. FINALLY ESA does something right
It's good. Now we have a new legit player in the space business. This means good for everyone. ESA cool stuff... no more tin cans to the next rock.
In da butt.
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