Titan Landscape

Titan Landscape
http://apod.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050117.html
APOD: 2005 January 17 - Titan Landscape
"ESA's Huygens probe after a 2 1/2 hour descent through a thick atmosphere of nitrogen laced with methane. "

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Travel & Events

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• Titan
• Landscape
• ESA
• Huygens
• probe

[meteor4163]

@bowlofarthritus There is no oxygen to start fire :(

[chaplinmonkey]

numenous!

[93Cobalt]

@SuperPoliceState Besides, the reason that everything looks so low-tech is because the probe was small, and had to have lots of other instruments packed into it, so quality had to suffer. Plus the video would have been in black and white originally, before NASA coloured it in. This because Titan is 9 AUs away from the Sun, so very little light would have been reaching the probe. Finally, the probe was launched in 1997, so cut it some slack.

[93Cobalt]

@SuperPoliceState yh, your probably right, I worded that too harshly. Sometimes I forget how offensively I word things on YouTube because I just think of everybody as names on a screen. But why don't you have faith in NASA? I can't see why they would try to fool everyone for no reason. And many of these scientists spend their entire lives working on projects like these. I was just a bit pissed off that nobody believes these experts, but they're quick to believe other more ridiculous stuff.

[SuperPoliceState]

@93Cobalt Great so you are a self hater. After all you "hate" self righteous retards and your comment clearly points to the fact that you are self righteous since Nasa can do no wrong 

[93Cobalt]

@DevasionX Oh no, sorry if I gave that impression. I was using plants as an example. Just to clarify I don't believe that life exists on Titan, least of all plants. But there are examples of non plant life that don't require oxygen. One of these is Archaea, a single cell life form. There are also a variety of life around hydrothermal vents that rely on sulfuric compounds. As for complex life, I agree that these methods of metabolism don't fill the energy needs that oxygen can.

[liamwalker206]

Looks like a fart

[DevasionX]

@93Cobalt true but you are talking about plants... we will talk about animal lifeform. no vegetation.

[93Cobalt]

@SuperPoliceState Some random guy on Youtube can't call bs. I'm sorry, but I hate self righteous retards who think they know everything. The reason you can't call bs is because it happened. Cassini-Huygens wasn't just sent to explore Titan, it was the whole Saturn system, so they had to make a few sacrifices. It annoys me when retards like you think you more than NASA, people who devote their entire lives to giving us images of distant worlds, just for some moron to diss it.

[93Cobalt]

@DevasionX Who says life on Earth needs oxygen? Animals do, but there are plenty of examples of life on Earth that don't need oxygen, the most obvious being plants, the less obvious being the life that exists around hydrothermal vents.

[DevasionX]

@meteor4163 who sais oxigen is needed for alien lifeform?

[Mozultecania]

Looks like Mars