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Re: Saturn: Lord of the Rings
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Originally posted by ARTelevision
Huygens will not live long after landing. If it falls in an ethane lake or ocean, the cold will finish it almost immediately. If it survives a hard-surface impact it will be able to transmit data, but only for about 30 minutes. Then, Lebreton said, the batteries will give out, even as Cassini disappears over Titan's horizon.
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I like the mental imagery that this last paragraph gave me, of a hauntingly beautiful, alien landscape totally at odds with what is familiar to me. I find it extremely hard to fathom what it would be like to even see these things, rather than try to imagine actually being there. It just goes to show how insignificant we Earthlings really are in the grand scheme of things.
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Green. Yellow. Blue.
Last edited by aarchaon; 06-07-2004 at 07:33 PM..
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