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Huygens begins its Titan descent
Yesterday CANVAS showed this amazing documentary (on the spaceship Cassopedia) which made me think over and over: what an amazing world we have. This little tiny planet in this huge space.
Today, the Huygens probe has started its historic journey towards the atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan, hopefully revealing some of the mysteries of life.
As one of the interviewed scientists said: "What is the difference between me and a piece of stone. How come we exist out of the same substance and yet,, the stone is dead, and I am alive, I can think and wonder about this question. In which way the order of things is sorted different so we live and other materials don't."
Titan exists out of the same materials as Earth, yet the atmosphere and the temperatures are very different.
According to speculations there would be rivers and clouds, and mountains.
Yet the mountains would exist out of water, frozen so hard that it is like stone, and the rivers would exist out of methan, in a liquid form, the clouds would contain thick methan drips, falling slower due to a different in material, atmosphere and gravity.
Scientists are eager to know...
Posted on January 14, 2005
in Limit of my knowledge
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