First pictures from Titan
 

amazing. Here are the first pics from huygens (ESA) which landed on TITAN today.

http://esamultimedia.esa.int/images/...nding_01_H.jpg

http://esamultimedia.esa.int/images/...nding_03_H.jpg

Looks cool (- 140 celcius I think) :thumbsup

interesting

double post sorry.

pretty kool

CNN reported that one image was mysteriously removed from the NASA website without explanation.....was this E.T.????

i hope they gonna provide some better pics soon.

ESA said that the atmosphere is very similar to the atmosphere of our planet some thousands of years ago.

check the second pic. Something has to flow there ... or did flow there in the past.

Lot of ESA and NASA people expect to find water on TITAN

i heard about a pic which was shown on the ESA website and was removed again. Only the 2 pics i post here can be seen there.

Dunno what the prob was

Not water, liquid methane. Water would be ice.

i mean some hundreds of meters under the earth.

OK., I am lost. What the Fuck is Titan???

I dont watch tv, and if it is not on the msn home page, I have no idea.

what do you think? Does the second pic shows methane rivers?

bbc is doing a special right now...awesome stuff

its one of the saturn moons

another. Cant see much here

http://esamultimedia.esa.int/images/...nding_02_H.jpg

Interesting stuff!

Life on Titan?

Titan, Saturn's largest moon, is a mysterious place. Its thick atmosphere is rich in organic compounds. Some of them would be signs of life if they were on our planet.

How do they form on Titan? Will they help us to discover how life began on Earth?
Titan's atmosphere is mostly nitrogen but there are also methane and many other organic compounds. Organic compounds form when sunlight destroys methane. If sunlight is continuously destroying methane, how is methane getting into the atmosphere?

On Earth today, it is life itself that refreshes the methane supply. Methane is a by-product of the metabolism of many organisms. On Earth, the simplest biological sources, such as those associated with peat bogs, rice fields and ruminant animals, continuously supply fresh gas to replace that destroyed by oxidation. Could this mean there is life on Titan?

Titan is not a pleasant place for life. It is far too cold for liquid water to exist, and all known forms of life need liquid water. Titan's surface is -180°C. According to one exotic theory, long ago, the impact of a meteorite, for example, might have provided enough heat to liquify water for perhaps a few hundred or thousand years.

However, it is unlikely that Titan is a site for life today. But scientists are still currently puzzled by the amount of methane that persists in Titan's atmosphere. Could there be oceans of methane on or under the surface?

nice pics!

Cool pics :thumbsup

thanks :thumbsup I am still looking for the big ones :(

great panorama

good stuff why black and white? they couldnt swing color?

Looks just like Mars except in black and white and not red.

Heard about that
I am over in Minnesota right now
was thinking of going there to warm up!

looks like my wallet

The color ones are still on their way back, too many bytes prob

Intresting shit,that universe

except for the water or methane

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedi...1300-br500.jpg

"This is one of the first raw images returned by the ESA Huygens probe during its successful descent.It was taken at an altitude of 8 kilometres with a resolution of 20 metres per pixel. It shows what could be the landing site, with shorelines and boundaries between raised ground and flooded plains."