Showing posts with label Cassini. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cassini. Show all posts

Thursday, January 04, 2007

Space, the final frontier



From Monmouth County, New Jersey. This 'rock' crashed into someone's home on Tuesday night.

Police received a call Wednesday morning that the metal object had punched a hole in the roof of the single-family, two-story home, damaged tiles on a bathroom floor, and then bounced, sticking into a wall.



Yesterday it was announced that Saturn's Moon Titan a world of rivers and lakes. Sadly we can't go swimming in them.

Titan is the only moon in the solar system to have a dense atmosphere with thin layers of methane and nitrogen clouds--a setup similar to that of early Earth. Atmospheric methane is destroyed by sunlight over time and must constantly be renewed. Scientists thus speculated that lakes or even oceans of methane might exist on, or just beneath, the moon's icy surface and that evaporation from these liquid bodies was replenishing the atmosphere. The first confirmation of this thinking came last July when Cassini's radar spotted more than 75 large, dark patches around the surface of the moon's northern pole.