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Your puns make us "supher" enough already, Nimrod.
I hear a new Venus mission is scheduled. Cant recall when though.
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One reason I, at least, haven't been too busy posting to this thread is that there isn't much to say about it, other than to just confirm that, yes, those pictures are some kind of awesome.
(That is totally my desktop image too.)
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I am thinking about switching to that infrared or near-infrared picture of the surface of Titan, which just strikes me as really incredible. I mean, my mental picture of Titan, built for the most part when I was a kid watching specials about then new information from Voyager 2 is hazy and featureless and now here it is, slightly less hazy and with a couple of features.
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If you ever read the novel version of 2001 (which was written concurrently with the movie script), Iapetus was where the second monolith was located, not in orbit of Jupiter.
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I dont think a rover on Venus would last very long. Our Mars Rovers are really not too dependable -and that's in a sterile, low gravity environment with no rain, corrosives or atmosphere to speak of.
I'd be happy with a orbiting probe and several deployable atmospheric probes at Venus' poles, seas and plains.
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Well, so much for my many links about Iapetus and Titan, thanks to, I don't know, a coding issue or something.
Iapetus the dude is a Titan in Greek mythology.
Iapetus the moon is, well, a moon of Saturn. Roughly half of it is much darker than the other half, for mysterious reasons.
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quote:Originally posted by Sol System: Iapetus the moon is, well, a moon of Saturn. Roughly half of it is much darker than the other half, for mysterious reasons.
Possible dust accumilation from the rin system if the moon's orbit ever passed through them, I suppose.
Or the Rigelian Valdez ran aground there.
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Seems likely it's from running into something. Iapetus is tidelocked and the black stuff's on the leading edge.
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quote:Originally posted by B.J.: If you ever read the novel version of 2001 (which was written concurrently with the movie script), Iapetus was where the second monolith was located, not in orbit of Jupiter.
B.J.
So everything in the 2001 book happened around Saturn not Jupiter?
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