Showing posts with label saturn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label saturn. Show all posts

Soaring Over Titan Extraterrestrial Land Of Lakes

Author: Unknown Posted under: , ,
Soaring Over Titan Extraterrestrial Land Of Lakes
This colorized movie from NASA's Cassini mission takes viewers over the largest seas and lakes on Saturn's moon Titan. The movie is made from radar data received during multiple flyovers of Titan from 2004 to 2013. More:This colorized movie from NASA's Cassini mission shows the most complete view yet of Titan's northern land of lakes and seas. Saturn's moon Titan is the only world in our solar system other than Earth that has stable liquid on its surface. The liquid in Titan's lakes and seas is mostly methane and data were obtained by Cassini's radar instrument from 2004 to 2013. In this projection, the north pole is at the center. The view extends down to 50 degrees north latitude. In this color scheme, liquids appear blue and black depending on the way the radar bounced off the surface. Land areas appear yellow to white. A haze was added to simulate the Titan Mare, Titan's largest sea, is the body in black and blue that sprawls from just below and to the right of the north pole down to the bottom right. Ligeia Mare, Titan's second largest sea, is a nearly heart-shaped body to the left and above the north pole. Punga Mare is just below the north area above and to the left of the north pole is dotted with smaller lakes. Lakes in this area are about 30 miles (50 kilometers) across or of the bodies of liquid on Titan occur in the northern hemisphere. In fact nearly all the lakes and seas on Titan fall into a box covering about 600 by 1,100 miles (900 by 1,800 kilometers). Only 3 percent of the liquid at Titan falls outside of this are trying to identify the geologic processes that are creating large depressions capable of holding major seas in this limited area. A prime suspect is regional extension of the crust, which on Earth leads to the formation of faults creating alternating basins and roughly parallel mountain ranges. This process has shaped the Basin and Range province of the western United States, and during the period of cooler climate 13,000 years ago much of the present state of Nevada was flooded with Lake Lahontan, which (though smaller) bears a strong resemblance to the region of closely packed seas on Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, DC. The Cassini orbiter was designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The radar instrument was built by JPL and the Italian Space Agency, working with team members from the United States and several European more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit and

Credit: mysteries-and-strangeness.blogspot.com
0 Comments

National Geographic Space Pictures This Week Lvii

Author: Unknown Posted under: , ,
National Geographic Space Pictures This Week Lvii
Tumble Record This Week: Morning From Tumble, Saturn After Ominous

By Kate Andries, Inhabitant GEOGRAPHIC Gossip, 11 MAY 2013.

Astronauts see the sun stick out from space, Saturn goes dark blue, and a volcano spews ash in this week's best space pictures.

1. Solar Point

Solar be important dances on the sun in this image of a mid-level blaze from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory subject May 3.

Customary as a build pimple, the blaze is a vivid surface extending from the sun's act. It forms over the course of a day and erupts since the casing becomes unsound and releases the plasma supposed exclusive.

An multiply in solar flares is to be intended as the sun's 11-year activity ride ramps up in the direction of the solar intense, intended to come to its top in late 2013. (Related: "Solar Nor'easter Footer On the road to Arrive.")

2. Morning FROM Tumble

One of the Seek 35 whoop it up members aboard the Worldwide Tumble Position snapped this photo of the sun rising over the South Soothing Marine. (See manager pictures of the Worldwide Tumble Position.)

In demand connecting 4 and 5 a.m. on May 5, the Earth-orbiting spacecraft afterward a whoop it up of six was hanging a few hundred miles east of Easter Atoll.

3. Quill OF ASH

Ash spews out of the erupting Paluweh volcano in Indonesia on April 29, in this image captured by the Landsat Make a recording Continuity Duty (LDCM) satellite. (Comparable video: "Volcanoes 101.")

The five-mile-wide volcanic island was spotted by the satellite as it flew over the Flores Sea (map), capturing all a natural-colour shot (pictured), as well as an infrared image.

The infrared sensor made known a hot spot where lava was discharge here the top of the volcano and after that indicated that ash cloudy out of the volcano was extreme cooler in warmth than the ocean's act beneath.

4. Invisible Clank

This artist's sense, released by NASA, shows Saturn's ingrained "drone current," made up of an hidden drone of tough ions left high and dry in the planet's captivating neighborhood.

The electrically charged, doughnut-shaped neighborhood of particles rotund Saturn and its costume jewelry is mapped out bestow using data from the Cassini-Huygens occupation. Saturn is pictured in the centre, afterward the red drone in favor of the diffusion of close undemanding gas outer walls of the planet's icy costume jewelry.

Likewise accepted as a plasma summon, the captivating neighborhood - imagined bestow in orangey and bleeding - acts taking into consideration a extract and traps these particles in Saturn's system, extreme taking into consideration the captivating fields that circle Arrive. (Related: "Obscure Portals in Earth's Enchanting Twig.")

5. SATURN After Ominous

A lack of tell to scatter light makes Saturn's despair upon its costume jewelry extreme darker than shadows seen on Arrive, as evidenced in this gaudy image released by NASA's Cassini spacecraft May 6.

In demand about 891,000 miles (1.4 million kilometres) from Saturn, this opportunity looks in the direction of the unilluminated side of the planet's costume jewelry - about 47 degrees beneath the plane of Saturn's costume jewelry. (Related: "Saturn's Bracelets Hit by Meteor Shampoo.")

[Source: Inhabitant Geographic Gossip. Edited.]
0 Comments