Monday night’s Titan-Texas football game will see the 21-year old Kenny Britt playing in place of Justin Gage. The match is scheduled to start at 7:30pm CT on Monday. Tennessee receiver Justin Gage is out for the Titans’ game against the Texans with broken bones in his lower back. He has not practiced since 8th Nov’09 [...] Related posts: Justin Timberlake: Justin Timberlake is America’s...
Of course, Julia Child never had to work with acetylene : Saturn's frigid moon Titan may be friendlier to life than previously thought. New calculations suggest Titan's hydrocarbon lakes are loaded with acetylene, a chemical some scientists say could serve as food for cold-resistant organisms. ...An estimate made in 1989 suggested bodies of liquid hydrocarbons on Titan would contain a few parts in...
NASA CASSINI MISSION SENDS BACK PIX FROM SATURN'S MANY MOONS Let's take a tour of some of the many moons of Saturn, courtesy of NASA's Cassini Mission. Some of the photos have been around for a couple months, while others are "hot off the press". Included in this virtual tour of Saturn's Moons are Janus, Rhea, Hyperion, Dione, Penelope, Titan and Enceladus. There are many more, but these...
Lakes on Saturn's moon Titan are loaded with acetylene, a chemical some scientists say could serve as food for cold-resistant organisms, a new study suggests
The following new images taken by the Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS) on the Cassini spacecraft are now available: Spotlight on Penelope (Released 16 November 2009) The Cassini spacecraft spies the large Penelope crater on Saturn's moon Tethys. Pan's Short Shadow (Released 17 November 2009) The small moon Pan casts a short shadow on Saturn's A ring in this image taken as the planet approached its...
Sniffing out life on Titan (Image: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona/SPL) From New Scientist: IF LIFE is to be found beyond our home planet, then our closest encounters with it may come in the dark abyss of some extraterrestrial sea. For Earth is certainly not the only ocean-girdled world in our solar system. As many as five moons of Jupiter and Saturn are now thought to hide seas beneath their icy crusts....
I used to collect pictures of clouds. Back when a photograph was something you could hold in the hand like a soda or a coin. I have a photo album comprised of nothing but cloud photos, in fact. A photo album of nothing but beds. A photo album of nothing but one summer in Southern France. A photo album of skating rinks. A photo album full of clouds. There was rare a cloud in the sky today. A halcyon...
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Wolfgang Fink, visiting associate in physics at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena says we are on the brink of a great paradigm shift in planetary exploration, and the next round of robotic explorers will be nothing like what...
The following new images taken by the Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS) on the Cassini spacecraft are now available: Shadow and a Wave (Released 26 October 2009) The very faint shadow of the moon Atlas stretches across the top left of this image while a wave undulates across the A ring in the lower right of this image, which was taken around the time of Saturn's August 2009 equinox. Eclipsing Titan...
Space scientists in the US and UK are planning an incredible mission to go sailing on an alien lake on the far side of the solar system. They are proposing a mission in NASA's low-cost Discovery series to launch an unmanned, nuclear-powered "boat" to Saturn's biggest moon Titan in 2015. It would bob about on a vast sea of liquid methane called Ligeia Mare, radioing home photos and other data...
From Discover Magazine: Instead of spending time and money planning a manned mission to Mars, why not send an army of robots into space to do all the work? A fleet of robots could be deployed to explore far-away planets, according to researchers at Caltech’s Visual and Autonomous Exploration Systems Research Laboratory. From the Telegraph: Robotic airships and satellites will fly above the surface...
Science Daily: Robot Armada Might Scale New Worlds . ScienceDaily (Oct. 28, 2009) — An armada of robots may one day fly above the mountain tops of Saturn's moon Titan, cross its vast dunes and sail in its liquid lakes. Wolfgang Fink, visiting associate in physics at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena says we are on the brink of a great paradigm shift in planetary exploration,...
(PhysOrg.com) -- An armada of robots may one day fly above the mountain tops of Saturn's moon Titan, cross its vast dunes and sail in its liquid lakes.
An armada of robots may one day fly above the mountain tops of Saturn's moon Titan, cross its vast dunes and sail in its liquid lakes.Wolfgang Fink, visiting associate in physics at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena says we are on the brink of a great paradigm shift in planetary exploration, and the next round of robotic explorers will be nothing like what we see today."The way...
While we were watching that shiny balloon last week, the internet was abuzz over the news that deep-space exploration just became much faster -- and more likely. It's what Zandar, Mighty Destroyer of Stupid , calls an " Epic Civ4 Technology Win ." Two developments coincide to make this possible. The first is called a "plasma rocket." While that sounds very Star Trek-y, it's actually...
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