1st Surface Image Released

Them rocks are ROUND!
http://img125.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img1...surface5tg.jpg

On 14 Jan 2005 13:06:47 -0800, "Mike Reed"
wrote:

Them rocks are ROUND!
http://img125.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img1...surface5tg.jpg

Looks like Titan is a wind-blasted hellhole like Mars.
The rocks have been scoured and worn away.
-Rich

"Mike Reed" wrote in message
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Them rocks are ROUND!
http://img125.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img1...surface5tg.jpg


looks like mars....
;-)
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md
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Looks like Arizona!
Julius

"Mike Reed" wrote in message
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Them rocks are ROUND!
http://img125.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img1...surface5tg.jpg

On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 16:11:16 -0500, RichA wrote:

On 14 Jan 2005 13:06:47 -0800, "Mike Reed"
wrote:

Them rocks are ROUND!
http://img125.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img1...surface5tg.jpg

Looks like Titan is a wind-blasted hellhole like Mars.
The rocks have been scoured and worn away.

Can't tell yet from that image, but it almost looks like shallow pools
of liquid on the ground.

The wider angle shots show what appear to the experts (Dr. Carolyn
Porco) to be drainage channels and shoreline of a liquid lake.

---
Michael McCulloch

RichA wrote:
On 14 Jan 2005 13:06:47 -0800, "Mike Reed"
wrote:

Them rocks are ROUND!
http://img125.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img1...surface5tg.jpg

Looks like Titan is a wind-blasted hellhole like Mars.
The rocks have been scoured and worn away.
-Rich

Looks like stream worn pebbles and boulders.
Bet it rains there.
Hmmm... a good rocky "mineral" on Titan is H2O.
Maybe they are methane stream worn ice boulders...
Clif

Good point. At these temperatures, 250F below or 100C below or so, water
acts like a rock. No liquid water here. They may be silicate rocks or
something similar, but the rest of the moons of Saturn are ice covered if
not made up mostly of ice, so it's not unreasonable to think the surface of
Titan is predominately ices of some sort. The preliminary view of the
imaging team is that they might be ice blocks.
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Sincerely,
--- Dave
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"Manuel Joseph Din" wrote in message
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RichA wrote:
On 14 Jan 2005 13:06:47 -0800, "Mike Reed"
wrote:


Them rocks are ROUND!
http://img125.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img1...surface5tg.jpg


Looks like Titan is a wind-blasted hellhole like Mars.
The rocks have been scoured and worn away.
-Rich

How can you be so sure they're rocks?

Keep an open mind.

Or parts of the Outback of Australia. I suspect that at different
temperatures and even with different atmospheres, that geological and
erosional forces produce similar results on different worlds.
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Sincerely,
--- Dave
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It don't mean a thing
unless it has that certain "je ne sais quoi"
Duke Ellington
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"Szaki" wrote in message
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Looks like Arizona!
Julius

"Mike Reed" wrote in message
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Them rocks are ROUND!
http://img125.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img1...surface5tg.jpg

Mike Reed wrote:
Them rocks are ROUND!
http://img125.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img1...surface5tg.jpg

On the left, we seem to see half of a former pool that's drained away,
leaving a set of concentric "bathtub" rings. Is that real?

Brian Tung
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My Own Personal FAQ (SAA) at http://astro.isi.edu/reference/faq.txt

On the left, did you say? Here's a clearer version:
http://abnormalbrain.bizland.com/050114huygens1B.jpg

(from a humorous fark.com thread on the probe)

Here's a couple mo
http://home20.inet.tele.dk/appledane/cbdevl.jpg
http://www.sawyerhome.net/landing03_L2b-small.jpeg