The Swirling Vortex of Titan 45
sighted writes "New images from the robotic spacecraft Cassini show the ongoing formation of a massive vortex in the atmosphere of Saturn's planet-sized moon Titan. (See also this animation.) The same moon has recently provided tantalizing hints of an underground ocean as well. Future missions, if any are ever funded, will have plenty to explore."
Re:Titan is becoming a more amazing world (Score:5, Insightful)
Mod offtopic (Score:2, Insightful)
Please mod this entire fucking thread offtopic before it engulfs a potentially interesting discussion about Titan.
Re:Mod offtopic (Score:2, Insightful)
Can the condescending attitude please. Threading doesn't matter if 90% of it all is off topic politics and pushes the on topic talk into an unmoderated corner.
I wish there were more comments (Score:5, Insightful)
I wish there were more comments in stories like these. I always get a sense of child-like wonder when I see new things like this and I always find myself wondering how/why/what is going on. With the physics stories, we usually see some experts or at least some clued-in non-arrogant people having discussions that REALLY enlighten me. Stuff like this, not so much. It makes me feel kind of sad.
I wish I knew more about this subject or at least enough to know where to go look. I will probably have to start with cloud formations and vortex mechanics and work my way out from there, but by the time I finally have a general idea, the wonder will be lost... but at least the information will still reside in my brain and I can apply it to Jupiter or somesuch. I am getting too old and the universe is too big for me to do original research on everything. That is the only reason I wish I could live forever. :)
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