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Pictures of Titan

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Marek Krysiak Marek Krysiak's picture
Pictures of Titan


Arenamontanus Arenamontanus's picture
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The cool thing is that it looks like computer graphics - an environment of perfect spheres and rings. I really want to go to the Saturn system, to me it beats the Jovian system aesthetically.
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Marek Krysiak Marek Krysiak's picture
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Yeah, they look pretty artificial and unnatural - not what you would expect from a real object. They seem to smooth, not detailed enough. Although I must say that after few minutes of contemplation and imagining that I "was there" I was hit (with almost audible "pop!") with sudden realisation: "Wow, that's real!" It works on most pictures of planets and moons - at least for me.


Arenamontanus Arenamontanus's picture
Even more gorgeous pictures:
Even more gorgeous pictures: http://www.ciclops.org/view_event/179/Giants_in_Living_Color?js=1 These feel like they ought to be the opening image in an official Commonwealth transmission. "Fellow citizens of the Commonwealth..."
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Arenamontanus wrote:The cool
Arenamontanus wrote:
The cool thing is that it looks like computer graphics - an environment of perfect spheres and rings. I really want to go to the Saturn system, to me it beats the Jovian system aesthetically.
Dem rings.
Arenamontanus Arenamontanus's picture
One of the cool things is
One of the cool things is that the picture of Titan obscured by the rings show that they are not all pristine white - they have some seriously dark streaks too. Incidentally, solar eclipses by Saturn are interesting. They would appear to be far more common in this system than in the Earth-Luna system since Saturn is much bigger in the sky, and the sun much smaller. But while the moons are fairly close to the equatorial plane of Saturn, Saturn has an axial tilt of 27 degrees. So hence eclipses only tend to happen around the equinoxes, every 15 years. But then Titan gets 6 hour eclipses in intervals of approximately 16 days. This might cause stormy weather on Titan: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2001DPS....33.5508M "It was a dark and stormy eclipse; the methane rain fell in torrents — except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of nitrogen wind which swept up the flyways (for it is in Nyhavn that our scene lies), rattling along the domes, and fiercely agitating the scanty glow of the floodlights that struggled against the darkness."
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