18-01-2005 14:18									#1
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Just in case someone would be interested, but haven't heard yet. Huygens probe landed on Titan. Quite interesting landscapes there. There are not many processed pictures yet, but here you can see some:
http://www.solarviews.com/eng/huygens.htm
Some time ago there was a probe, which entered Jupiter atmosphere, much more dense than that of Titan, but here there was also a landing.

	18-01-2005 22:45									#2
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but sadly no monoliths were found

	19-01-2005 10:22									#3
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so far...

	19-01-2005 11:34									#4
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If there were, would we hear about it?

	19-01-2005 11:38									#5
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who would tell? there is -180 Celsius. Some snowmen maybe

	19-01-2005 17:43									#6
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quote: Originally posted by mart7x5 who would tell? there is -180 Celsius. Some snowmen maybe

Made of methane...(i think)

Take a match and BOOM!!

	19-01-2005 21:19									#7
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One of the pictures show strange red fungus and a small object in the soil. The scientists zoomed in the image of the small object and found out that it was a holobook and this was written on its cover: "How to Raise a Nerve-Stapled Child".

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quote: Originally posted by Lord Nword Made of methane...(i think) Take a match and BOOM!!

not quite, for an explosion to occur, you would need oxygen, and lots of it in this case, luckily for the huygens probe, Titan doesnt have any (significant amounts)

	20-01-2005 08:46									#9
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quote: Originally posted by Mark123jansen not quite, for an explosion to occur, you would need oxygen, and lots of it in this case, luckily for the huygens probe, Titan doesnt have any (significant amounts)

Shows how little Advanced Placement Chemistry that I'm taking is having on my thoughts

	20-01-2005 22:41									#10
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even with oxyen present it would only explode on warmer(!) days, since methane has a flamimg point of -187 degrees celsius.

	21-01-2005 15:40									#11
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well, the heat generated by huygens descend through the atmosphere, or its desceleration boosters would have taken care of that, so lack of oxygen really was the only thing keeping that moon from blowing up.

	24-01-2005 12:23									#12
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That's what I love about SMACX, I leave a short note about some astronautics achievement and there goes a Planetology course (which I love too ) with all its chemistry and physics

	25-01-2005 08:44									#13
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Wouldn't that have been funny if the probe had accidentally exploded the surface of Titan? Not saying it's possible, since it clearly didn't happen, but think of the pictures.

	25-01-2005 10:24									#14
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HAHAHA there goes (large nuber) million dollars of technologie and years of waiting HAHAHA

	25-01-2005 21:59									#15
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Any asteroid would have done that already

	25-01-2005 23:39									#16
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Not necessarily. Most 'roids in that area of the solar system consist predominantly of ice, thus would be dissolved already before even coming close to the surface (where the highest concentrations of methane are).