Cassini spots Titan ‘mini-Nile’
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has sent back images of what the space agency says is “the first time images have revealed a river system this vast and in such high resolution anywhere other than Earth”. NASA image mini-Nile NASA image: Mini-Nile on Titan The river system on Saturn’s moon Titan has tickled the scientists because of …
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And unlike explorers of old, leave the tobacco pipe at home. One spark in the wrong place and the whole lot will go up!
well, he'd probably have taken some with him? For the breathing and everything?
Maybe you can Oxbridge to race sculls down it....
You can call it "Clash of the Titan"!
Re: Maybe you can Oxbridge to race sculls down it....
And don't forget your woolies
Re: Maybe you can Oxbridge to race sculls down it....
You could - 100s of years ago when racing was done for fun and participants were properly laced with ethanol. In those years moving them to Titan would have been moving them from one natural alcohol environment to another.
Today - not so much.
I don't believe NASA have discovered an extra-terrestrial river
I’m In De Nile
It has a "resemblance to the river Nile"? Sure, but if they turn the photo 90° clockwise, it's the spitting image of the Amazon.
Or 90 deg the other way and it looks like the Gambia River.
"if they turn the photo 90° clockwise, it's the spitting image of the Amazon."
That'll teach 'em! They won't use Apple Maps to for the navigation system on their next space probe!
But I can see...
... Pat Butcher's house, so it can't be the Nile.
Pat - Titan, and proof that drinking hydrocarbons is not good for the skin.
Moon river
wider than a mile
I'm crossing you in style
someday
"I'm crossing you in style"
Given a surface gravity of 0.14g, you can probably jump across. In Ballerina pointy leap, of course, to be stylish
A "Grand Jeté" - to be followed by a "Grand Guignol" if you don't quite make it!
Liquid Hydrocarbons eh?
uh-oh Titan, look out, you're next on the axis of evil...
400km river full of hydrocarbons
Wow...BP would be so proud...
I'm looking out for...
...the gigantic Harkonen refinery floating on a sea of hydrocarbons.
Re: I'm looking out for...
In this neck of the woods it is more likely to be Halliburton.
With all due respect to the team operating this...
... but why did it take 8.5 Earth-years of orbits to obtain these images?
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