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- Mon Oct 01, 2007 6:51 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Hole in Mars (APOD 28 Sep 07)
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- Fri Feb 09, 2007 8:17 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Liquid Lakes on Saturn's Titan (APOD 7 Feb 2007)
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Do you mean it looks like scum because of the texture? Remember this is a radar reflection off the surface and it's a view 150 km wide. Color and texture can be deceptive, because of the scale and the fact that they don't represent what the ground actually looks, but rather varying strengths of rad...
- Fri Feb 09, 2007 3:29 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Liquid Lakes on Saturn's Titan (APOD 7 Feb 2007)
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Lakes on Titan
They don't look at all like lakes to me...they look much more like scum on a lake/sea. The crucial thing, of course, is do they change? It seems to me quite possible that methane lakes could be covered by a scum of complex organics. The same applies to the original probe pictures which appeared to s...