Picture7_L
Originally uploaded by elvenstar522.
15 January 2005
This image was returned yesterday, 14 January 2005, by ESA’s Huygens probe during its successful descent to land on Titan. This is the coloured view, following processing to add reflection spectra data, gives a better indication of the actual colour of the surface. Initially thought to be rocks or ice blocks, they are more pebble-sized. The two rock-like objects just below the middle of the image are about 15 centimetres (left) and 4 centimetres (centre) across respectively, at a distance of about 85 centimetres from Huygens. The surface is darker than originally expected, consisting of a mixture of water and hydrocarbon ice. There is also evidence of erosion at the base of these objects, indicating possible fluvial activity.
Credits: ESA/NASA/University of Arizona
The camera aboard Huygens is so good it’s making those rocks appear much larger than they actually are. Other pictures reveal an awe inspiring landscape including islands in a sea of methane with a mist shrouded horizon. The “fluvial activity” is most intruiging. Is it the result of liquid methane or liquid nitrogen running over the rocks? Or could it be possible that at some disant point in Titan’s past, liquid water flowed?
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