Starship Asterisk*

picture a very overcast day around sunrise. that's what I figure.


think about it. titan is bathed in clouds. and it's got way less sun that the earth hitting it at any moment.

one good thing for sure is that Huygens didn't return any pictures that had "shadows" or "faces".

at least those people won't be involved in this one. but they always try to find a way to prove a government alien coverup

thanks, the second link was great.

pictures will be here soon.


this is so AWSOME!!!

That number suprises me, with a mass over 300 times that of Earth I would expect it to be higher. The size of the core must have been down graded since my old books were published. That girl is just a surfing friend of mine - she did ask if you were married. a=(m*G)/(R^2) Jupiter is not dense, so i...

Boldra wrote:

crosscountry wrote: I'm curious why the ranging data is missing.

Boldra

I am too.

But, if there are non-reflective surfaces , or they bounce at a different angle, the radar cannot detect it's own signal.

Why do galaxies with small black holes still exibit characteristics due to dark matter? I guess the question is: Large Galaxies with large black holes exhibit characteristics of dark matter. Small Galaxies with small or no black holes also exhibit those characteristics. So how could a no-black-hole-...

Thanks for the info; but where did you get it? Did you work on either of these projects or their instruments? This would certainly explain the image quality, but I'm still puzzled that there doesn't seem to be any altitude data, just light patches (radar reflective) and dark patches (not radar refl...

um... holy unlimited bliss batman..! So then... who out there still thinks we are the only ones here? =) So if it would take 1 million uninterrupted years to observe the full range of what encompasses us, what if there were hundreds, or thousands of telescopes doing this at one time? All capable of...

Mary Celest is right. microlensing does not work for small objects.

you didn't say where you glide? is it over a desert or what?

I don't mean anything by it. I'm just suggesting the message is the same in ALL CAPS or not.

I personally don't like all caps, but that's me.

I feel pretty powerful. I can see stars nebulae and much more with just my amatuer dob.

I bet those running Keck or Kitt Peak feel much more so.

that's awsome thanks for the links. The image from my above post is now wide-spread over the net, and is actually loosely cropped version of this image (see below) by J.P.Luminet; on one of his site pages you can find older, original computer-simulated image . http://lpnhe-auger.in2p3.fr/slides/vulg...

RJ Emery wrote: Two other authors well worth reading are Timothy Ferris (The Red Limit and The Whole Shebang) and Ken Croswell (The Alchemy of the Heavens).

Thanks for the tips. I just ordered those books.

Cross

PRN wrote:

BMAONE wrote:WELL, AFTER CAREFUL CALCULATION (AND WATCHING THE MPEG A FEW MORE TIMES) I AGREE THAT THE OBJECT IS IN FACT MERCURY MOVING TOWARDS THE SUN.

Stop SHOUTING please. I can hear you.

picky picky

I haven't a clue. But I surmise they will use the frequencies that will serve the most useful. be that Infrared or radar it's ok with me.

I wonder if you are asking this because you want to predict oddities like human/animal behavior?

This information would be interesting, and I question your motive?

a link would be appropriate here

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap041207.html

you didn't mention if there were clouds in the sky.

did you rule out it being a cloud?

space-art wrote:People tend to think the Moon is a lot larger in the sky than it really is.

Cheers.

Funny how that is true. I guess it goes back to that old debate.

space-art wrote:Hello all. It has just come to my attention that several of you have been discussing the APOD image from 21 Dec, featuring the Huygens probe seen descending through the atmosphere of Titan.

I am the artist.

Thank you!!

for some reason I though you said "see" not "seek"


oops

This whole topic of discussion makes me upset. Those people (few indeed) that believe we never went there have no spirit and no faith. Many of those people are the same ones that believe aliens have traveled thousands of light-years to probe us, but they can't believe we broke earth's gravity and tr...

[/quote] Mmm… BMaone… it is called Astronomy Picture of the Day, not Artistic Picture of the Day. [/quote] You've got a point. but I like the idea of sharing ideas. normal people (ones that don't study Astronomy, that makes us abnormal) don't try to understand these things. at least they have an out...

looks to me like a picture you could see on earth Has anybody noticed the size of the sun on http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap041221.html ? This simulated view of Huygen’s probe descent seems flawed to me because the sun’s brightness and angular size is more consistent to what we’d see from the Ea...