Monday, October 25, 2004
Passing Titan
Big day tomorrow for space buffs: http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/news/press-releases-04/20041025-pr-a.cfm. Be sure to catch the action on NASA tv.
In 1980, they had a choice of targeting Voyager 1 past Titan or Pluto. The expectation was high they'd find something at Titan, so Pluto remains a near total mystery. Sad thing was, Titan's orange haze rendered nearly zero visible light findings on the solar system's second largest moon. "It's orange," is about all that could be said.
Scientists talk about the building blocks of life, but I'm far more interested in the geology and weathering of methane and ice.
