Tuesday, July 6, 2004

Titan A.E.

The Cassini probe sent to study Saturn is now part of Saturn's lunar neighbourhood. One of the most interesting things it has to investigate is the moon Titan - the solar system's largest moon, nearly as big as Mars.

As always seems to be the case, this moon is not what scientists expected. They thought they would find a world covered in methane oceans. Instead, the good folks at JPL don't seem to know what they've found!

Whenever a probe finds out that the universe is not living up to the theories about it, I am reminded of the saying from Hamlet; "There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreampt of in thy philosophy."

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