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« Reply #15 on: March 17, 2003, 04:23:00 AM » |
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OK Jim, just made it a link. that's the problem with high-speed internet  
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« Reply #16 on: March 17, 2003, 06:23:00 PM » |
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I didn't mean to make you take it down altogether. Just grumpy 'cause my knee was hurting, I think. Had my surgery this morning and am sort of flying on the residual painkillers right now....
I wish you guys all could have been in that lecture Saturday. Neat stuff!
Jim
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« Reply #17 on: March 17, 2003, 08:33:00 PM » |
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Jacaranda,
Let me rephrase this, the outer gas giants do NOT have solid surfaces in the sense of here on the Earth, a sharp transition from an atmosphere to a solid ground surface, but rather a gradual transition from a gaseous atmosphere to a solid or semi solid, so that there is in effect no solid surface to speak of. Q
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« Reply #18 on: March 18, 2003, 11:47:00 AM » |
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I can't wait to see those photos from the Huygens probe. I'm hoping the possible oceans on Titan will manage to find themselves in the camera lense of the probe. It would be an incredible sight to peer upon an extraterrestrial ocean even if it isn't water and see those extraterrestrial clouds. Just watch though, they'll probably have forgotten to take the lense cover off or something else will go terribly wrong with it! :omg  :omg
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« Reply #19 on: March 18, 2003, 05:39:00 PM » |
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Happily, the probe seems perfectly healthy at the moment - I hope they test the high gain antenna about a million times. Don't want it getting stuck do we? All the info you could want is here: saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/index.cfmObviously, the Titan encounter is going to be a real highlight, but for me it's the rings. The pic further up this thread really whets the appetite! Steve M
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Remcook
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« Reply #20 on: March 19, 2003, 09:21:00 AM » |
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Orstio
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« Reply #21 on: March 21, 2003, 07:49:00 AM » |
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It's not too far:  The pic updates automatically.
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Remcook
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« Reply #22 on: March 21, 2003, 07:51:00 AM » |
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smichy
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« Reply #23 on: March 21, 2003, 09:45:00 AM » |
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No wonder it's already taken some good pics! Look! It's just a robotic arms length away!   If it could just cut across a bit, it would get there sooner! That Mercury mission is gonna take a while to get there, eh? Should get a good look at Venus on the way. Is Pluto Express confirmed yet? Will I still be alive when it arrives?! (I'm 37 years young:b  :b) Steve M
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Remcook
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« Reply #24 on: April 03, 2003, 04:36:00 AM » |
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Remcook
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« Reply #25 on: April 11, 2003, 03:03:00 AM » |
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Remcook
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« Reply #26 on: April 11, 2003, 09:44:00 AM » |
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Just bought myself Lifting Titan's veil . So more rejoicing ahead..  
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Remcook
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« Reply #27 on: April 24, 2003, 03:17:00 AM » |
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I can recommend the book to everyone. It had a higher level than I expected. A lot of nice details on the planet, but also some interesting stuff on other planets and on physics in general.
THere's a disadvantage though. Now the wait seems even longer!!! *aargh*
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« Reply #28 on: April 25, 2003, 04:03:00 PM » |
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Huygens is due to investigate the atmospheric and surface property in 2005. Today, there is report on the water ice surface of Titan, which resembles Ganymede, perhaps beneath liquid flowing organics, such as methane or ethane, in the Journal of Science. Huygens should unveil few mysteries for us in the near future.
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