Titan + a little imagination =

The March edition of ASTRONOMY magazine had an interesting article on Titan's landscape. Now Saturn is coming to its best view of the year. When I looked at it a couple of nights ago, I couldn't help letting my imagination run wild. I had as much fun watching Titan as watching Saturn.

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Current Projects: (1)Duplicating Galileo's work with a 50mm refractor at 20X / (2) Tracking Comets with a 10" dob

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The mind is the most powerful telescope, eh?

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The Universe really is an amazing thing. When man finally truly reaches for other worlds, I think we will find things are more bizarre than we can imagine. Titan is the perfect example. Jellied methane rain, lakes and rivers, sluggishly flowing through familiar looking riverbeds. You can say it with ease but truly imagining what that landscape would look and feel like, and how bizarre having gel liquid lakes of what is a gas here on Earth, is almost beyond actual imagination.

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I gravely give my profound thanks to those that have died in the name of liberty, that I might live free! - B.J. (My name)

Titan is by far my favorite moon in the Solar system. Had it been our moon instead of Luna, we might have had a twin, because Titan has plenty of ice on its surface. The water would have been liquid, and the methane would be gaseous, allowing for a beginning similar to that of Earth's had it been closer to the Sun.

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Viewing from sunny (and humid) Florida!

Speaking of Titan. This is an amazing shot.

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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself........Carl Sagan

I just wrote a paper on Titan, Europa, and Gilese 581 d about the existance of extra-terrestrial life. If I could see Titan with my own eyes I'd probably die.

Heres a pie chart on the make up of the masses of Saturns satellites:

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"The mind works like a parachute; It works best when its open."

That photo of Titan beyond the rings is unreal! Thanks for posting it.
Tonino.