Titan or Saturn VI is the largest moon of Saturn, the only moon known to have a dense atmosphere,[6] and the only object other than Earth for
which clear evidence of stable bodies of surface liquid has been found.
Size comparison: Earth, Titan and Earth's Moon.
lool..Maybe thats why the NWo wants to reduce global population
Huygens image from Titan's surface - the only image from the surface of a planetary body besides Venus, Mars, Earth and its moon.
this is what i call a cool picture XD
Huygens : probe on titan
"It's comforting to find that Titan is so amazingly Earth-like in so many ways, but it's fascinating to find so much that's a mystery," said
Stephen D. Wall, a leader of the Cassini radar team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Team. "We're seeing dunes of ice grains like deserts," he said
Wednesday, "and drainage channels that look for all the world like the Amazon, and volcanoes and impact craters and lakes." Titan's surface is
even cleaved in areas by long dark streaks that closely resemble Earthly tectonics -- the continental rift zones and seismic faults that keep our
planet in a constant state of unrest, Wall said. "That moon is amazingly Earth-like," he said.
www.sfgate.com.../c/a/2006/06/08/MNGO3JAE861.DTL
So will Titan become like the Earth? Not in the near-term anyway. In order to provide the thermal radiation to increase Titan temperature to
habitable levels, the sun would have to substantially increase in brightness. In about 4 billion years (give or take), the sun will enter a red
giant phase. And during that brief period, Titan could get enough thermal energy to begin to transform into a world capable of sustaining life as
we know it. On the other hand such thermal transformations will undoubtedly effect its daddy, Saturn, and in turn also effect Titan. So it is
unlikely Titan will become like the Earth. But there may still be reasons to go to Titan. While we might not like to enjoy a day on the Titan
liquid methane beaches, we might like to use the natural elements to fuel our space craft as we continue our journey through the solar system or
perhaps onward to the stars. Plus Titan is an excellant laboratory, with a view of the early solar system and perhaps early Earth frozen for us to
examine.
www.madsci.org...
still its nice knowing we have a fuel station available in space
and maybe who knows!!..i dont trust the Sun either :/ ...in fact im afraid of her
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