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."
Tuesday, July 6, 2004
Titan A.E.
Posted by evolver at 5:41 PM
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