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Re: Huygens to plunge onto Titan
« on: January 09, 2005, 08:30:25 PM »
Hum,
Splash, thud or sink...?

Can’t wait for the decent shots...

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Re: Huygens to plunge onto Titan
« Reply #1 on: January 09, 2005, 11:48:15 PM »
Hum,
 1.2 billion kilometres separate the Cassini spacecraft and Earth - so only 1 hour and 8 minutes for the signal to reach us...

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Re: Huygens to plunge onto Titan
« Reply #2 on: January 11, 2005, 02:50:14 AM »
@PMC
>>wonder what they'll find?

Hum,
Hydrocarbon rain that’ll cover the camera lenses… (Weird rain, that is ten times bigger than earth’s raindrops and they fall down a lot slower…)
But before that, as it settles on the soft `mud` it’ll pick up the faint glow of Saturn through the green sky.

And yeah, Galileo passed through the ion belt before it burned up. Though the fiery entry, as well as the huge atmospheric pressures would zap most stowaways.

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Re: Huygens to plunge onto Titan
« Reply #3 on: January 14, 2005, 06:49:53 AM »
Hum,
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Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes...

All the carbon in the Universe, including that needed for carbon-based life forms such as ourselves, has been made in the hearts of stars -  through what is known as the "triple alpha reaction" - where three helium nuclei (alpha particles) fuse to make to make a nucleus of carbon-12...
We are indeed `lucy in the sky with diamonds`
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