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ninty · 01-14-2005, 06:41 PM

this is not water. this is methane.

the tempure on titan is something like -180 celcius. liquid water can't exist that far out in the solar system unless it's deep down near the core of a planet or moon like Europa, which is a moon of Jupiter. That is the best place to look for life in teh solar system. I believe there is a probe going there that will land, and then melt a hole in the ice that is miles deep to eventually get to where there is liquid water to see what lives down there.

The one thing about titan is the little balls in one of those pics up there they say are made of ice. Frozen water. So life could actually live there since we've found life in the ince in antarctica etc. although titan is a lot colder than antarctica, so i doubt it, but you never know. Anyway, we won't know until we get a rover type thing there to take samples. Huygens is already dead. It can't run on solar power because its so far away form the sun and the atmosphere is so thick. so it relies on batteries and Cassini also must orbit above it to relay the info to earth. cassini has now set, so huygens can't transmit. cassini won't be back to where huygens can transmit for 31 days. I don't think the batteries are supposed to last longer than a few hours. so basically all were getting today is about 300 pictures some sounds, because it had a mic onboard and probably some colour photos and analysis of the atmosphere.

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ninty is Offline Major General Posts: 12,683 Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Calgary	01-14-2005, 06:41 PM this is not water. this is methane. the tempure on titan is something like -180 celcius. liquid water can't exist that far out in the solar system unless it's deep down near the core of a planet or moon like Europa, which is a moon of Jupiter. That is the best place to look for life in teh solar system. I believe there is a probe going there that will land, and then melt a hole in the ice that is miles deep to eventually get to where there is liquid water to see what lives down there. The one thing about titan is the little balls in one of those pics up there they say are made of ice. Frozen water. So life could actually live there since we've found life in the ince in antarctica etc. although titan is a lot colder than antarctica, so i doubt it, but you never know. Anyway, we won't know until we get a rover type thing there to take samples. Huygens is already dead. It can't run on solar power because its so far away form the sun and the atmosphere is so thick. so it relies on batteries and Cassini also must orbit above it to relay the info to earth. cassini has now set, so huygens can't transmit. cassini won't be back to where huygens can transmit for 31 days. I don't think the batteries are supposed to last longer than a few hours. so basically all were getting today is about 300 pictures some sounds, because it had a mic onboard and probably some colour photos and analysis of the atmosphere.