Cassini radar show dramatic shoreline on Titan

[truthpusher]

http://www.spaceflightnow.com/cassini/050916titanshoreline.html

Radar image of Titan showing that the boundary of the bright (rough) region and the dark (smooth) region appears to be a shoreline. Credit: NASA/JPL


Cassini radar show dramatic shoreline on Titan
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NASA/JPL NEWS RELEASE
Posted: September 16, 2005
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Images returned during Cassini's recent flyby of Titan show captivating evidence of what appears to be a large shoreline cutting across the smoggy moon's southern hemisphere. Hints that this area was once wet, or currently has liquid present, are evident.

"We've been looking for evidence of oceans or seas on Titan for some time. This radar data is among the most telling evidence so far for a shoreline," said Steve Wall, radar deputy team leader from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.

The images show what looks like a shoreline dividing a distinct bright and dark region roughly 1,700 kilometers long by 170 kilometers wide (1,060 by 106 miles). Directly to the right of a bright and possibly rough area is one that is very dark and smooth.

"This is the area where liquid or a wet surface has most likely been present, now or in the recent past, said Wall. "Titan probably has episodic periods of rainfall or massive seepages of liquid from the ground."

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complete story: http://www.spaceflightnow.com/cassini/050916titanshoreline.html

[Botany]

1. Pure Science is Good!

and the war on it from * and his fundie nut cases is really hurting
America.

Bucky Balls Rule

[craigolemiss]

3. Watch out

Bush Scientists will see a fetus in the picture---I can't remember --does that mean we bomb it or pray to it?

[Judi Lynn]

9. Titan's not mentioned in the Bible. That means bomb it. n/t

[NNadir]

10. Actually, if I recall my long ago religious upbringing, Babylon was Iraq.

There's a shit load of bombing for holy rocks. In fact, as I recall Isreal and the Palestinians could have had peace at the end of the Clinton era, were it not for an argument over ownership of holy rocks.

On the other hand, Titan has hydrocarbons, and this argues for bombing.

What would Jesus do? This is the big scientific question of our age.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Can we move to Titan?

[kestrel91316]

4. Shoreline???? That pic looks like the last hairball my cat puked up.

[stevedeshazer]

5. Does Titan have oil?

Surely this would accelerate space exploration.

:eyes:

[MisterP]

8. it's a big ball of hydrocarbons! methane and ethane!

onwards and upwards, colonialism will rise to new heights and new glories as eventually we pelt headlong, consuming worlds and leaving them blasted just the moment we touch them!
woohoo! top of the world, ma!

[roguevalley]

6. I wonder if the Titan dinosaurs were on the ark too?

[On the Road]

7. Now to Find Out if It's Really Liquid

they need to do another flyby and snap an identical picture. If the shoreline is slightly different, it's liquid.

[electron_blue]

11. wow!

thanks for posting. amazing stuff.