An image from the surface of Titan (Saturn Moon with lakes/oceans) — the only image from the surface of an object farther away than Mars.

Nov 2, 2014 3:08 PM

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An image from the surface of Titan (Saturn Moon with lakes/oceans) — the only image from the surface of an object farther away than Mars.

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when was this taken?

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Gravity on Titan is so low that the liquid Methane rain comes down very slow. It almost looks like its floating in the air.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

This was on a moon that doesn't orbit our planet. Neat.

10 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

NASA has potato phones that take vertical pictures. Thanks Obama.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

even NASA has vertical pictures...

10 years ago | Likes 233 Dislikes 3

it's because they cropped out the aliens and trees growing

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It was an ESA probe actually. It was a joint mission. Cassini, the orbiter that dropped it, was NASA's.

10 years ago | Likes 22 Dislikes 0

Vertical videos are bad. Vertical pictures are sometimes fine. (This one isn't, horizontal is called "landscape" for a reason)

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Always turn your camera portrait if you're making a panno!

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

i imagine nasa posting this for the public for the first time and being like "sorry for the potato quality"

10 years ago | Likes 65 Dislikes 4

"yeah, nevermind that it's a multi-thousand dollar camera, it takes shit pictures, and is always whining about how cold it is."

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

This is why NASA needs more funding, for amazing stuff like this.

10 years ago | Likes 63 Dislikes 0

Yes plz more boring ass picture of space rokcs

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 19

You dunce. If we had even twice the amount of government funding Mars would have been colonized by the 90s.

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Can't agree more, NASA had so many ancillary benefits besides being cool as fuck that I can't believe we ever all but shut it down.

10 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

They are still the most funded space agency in the world. I do agree they could use more though.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Pictures on the surface of other planets/moons are the best part of space exploration. But we only have pics of Venus,Titan and the Moon :(

10 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

And Mars

10 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

aaaand Mars of course, forgetting the oblivious

10 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

*obvious ;)

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

god damnit xD

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Looks homey.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

10 years ago | Likes 801 Dislikes 5

I love the punch!

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

aww it cut out at the best part when he's punching the asteroids

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

WE RULE SPACE, SUCK IT REST OF THE WORLD!!!

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Why did they cut out the meteor punching part?? That was my favorite part!!

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

YOU'RE NOT MANKIND!

10 years ago | Likes 77 Dislikes 2

Sick reference.bro

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

AWESOME

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

woo

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

http://imgur.com/O1I5ArF

10 years ago | Likes 35 Dislikes 0

The alien needs a 9gag or 4chan symbol on its face, haha!

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Do you have a flag. . . . ?

10 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 0

What? We don't need a flag, this is our home, you bastards!

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

No flag, no country; you can't have one.

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Those are the rules.. that I've just made up.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Excellent. Freaking love this commercial

10 years ago | Likes 27 Dislikes 1

Sauce please

10 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

Thank you

10 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Where's Thanos?

10 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

my thoughts exactly

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I always upvote outer space things

10 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

So far I can confirm that this user does indeed, upvote space things. I have found a picture of HaveALlamaDay

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

This is a better quality photo than some people post here with their phones. On earth.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

are you sure this is not mexico ? sephia ?

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 2

Technology is fucking amazing.

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 2

what did they send there? a potato?

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Let's hope Titan isn't attacked

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 2

Was expecting dickbutt...

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Looks a lot like venusian land.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Looks like venus surface

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

10 people were not impressed by this

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Probably the picture cropping master race

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Look at this photo. Really look at it. That's another planet. Let that sink in.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

And yes, I know it's a moon, that's not the point.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

But where are all the Poozers?

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It's blurry.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Why does this look like it was taken by an iPhone?

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

lets free the fuck out of it.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Plot twist: photo of under his bed

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

are we gonna colonize and teraform this bitch or what?!

10 years ago | Likes 653 Dislikes 5

Solar flux at Titan is about 20W per m2 as opposed to Earth's 1350W, temp is -170'C and the oceans are made out of lighter fluid. So no.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

so all i have to do is toss a match?

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

No free oxidiser to react with. If you sprayed an oxygen tank onto it, sure, until the tank runs out.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Nope. Everyone is missing the radiation that we'd have to go through would kill us.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Saturn does not have as extensive of a radiation belt as Jupiter.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It's still intense enough to be a factor that would keep us from ever putting boots on Titan. We've got better places to go anyways.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Mars has killer cockroaches.

10 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

And the moon is an Egg

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

LET'S TERAFORM THIS BITCH!! I'M READY!!

10 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 1

"Random people from the internet, none fit to fly to space, well now they're mining space oil far from home"

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Sometimes on Titan, it rains cyanide.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

OMG Cowboy Bebop was right!!!

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I've played enough Spore to know that this should be a piece of cake

10 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

As long as we don't fucking employ Weyland-Yutani to do it

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

yeah, cos we as a species have a great track record of doing that succesfully... *sarcasm*

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Well, you'd have to find some good rock to build on, because unless you have near perfect insulation ur gonna melt down into the crust.

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Even worse you'd need to produce a prodigious amount of heat to counteract the 1.5bar -170'C air constantly leeching away at colony heat

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Terraforming is less about technology and more about huge masses of resources and energy.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I hope you like liquid methane.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

WAY too damn cold.

10 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

Yeah, if you're a bitch.

10 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

Hire more Canadians.

10 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

once we make an engine that can go a little faster lel

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Given that that probe only survived for 3 hours before being flattened by crushing pressure, extremely intense heat and acid rain... (1/2)

10 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 6

that may not be such a good idea.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 3

You're confusing it with the Venera probes on Venus, I believe. Pressure on Titan is quite ok, there's no acid and it's very cold.

10 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Also it doesn't rain acid on the surface of Venus either. There are clouds and rains of sulfuric acid higher in the atmosphere, though.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

hmn yes. Wait, wasn't it Venus? I'm confused now

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Terraformers taught me that terraforming is a bad idea.

10 years ago | Likes 23 Dislikes 1

10 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Star Trek III taught me that too.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

What happens in that? So censored that for all I know all the deaths were from natural causes and the roaches were trying to help

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Yeah, the new Censorformers is good series indeed.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It's what we call a shake 'n' bake colony. They set up atmosphere processors to make the air breathable. Big job. Takes decades.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Building Better Worlds.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Kickstarter?

10 years ago | Likes 54 Dislikes 1

I heard Titan has tons of Oil. So probably going to get money from the US that it borrowed from China again.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 3

The lakes and oceans are liquid methane, by the way. Pretty important to clarify that.

10 years ago | Likes 164 Dislikes 0

That gives another meaning to 'Liquid Fart'.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Methane and methane accessories

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

And ethane.

10 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 0

And likely some interesting higher mass alkenes.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

And the "rocks" are water

10 years ago | Likes 20 Dislikes 1

what

10 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

The "rocks", they are ice.

10 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

You can have ice of a lot of different things. Doesn't have to be water ice.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 3

Actually nope. Water is the word for liquid h2o ice is the word for solid h20. Source: i have my M.S. in Physics.

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

I think by definition "ice" is frozen/solid water. Not sure of generic word for solid form of stuff though.

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Be a shame if someone were to *sunglasses* ATTACK IT

10 years ago | Likes 384 Dislikes 16

Ack Ack ack!

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Us Americans are headed out there to liberate it soon.

10 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 2

Yeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh

10 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 2

*potato eating intensifies*

10 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

TITANS ARE MY TRIGGER

10 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

TRIGGERS ARE MY TRIGGER

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Oh what? Are you upset because your mom got nommed by a Titan?

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I heard it has oil.

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Looks like Titan needs some freedom

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

You mean someone is going to do an *sunglasses* ATTACK ON TITAN?

10 years ago | Likes 82 Dislikes 6

SIE SIND DAS ESSEN UND WIR SIND DIE JAGER

10 years ago | Likes 23 Dislikes 1

HA. HA. AH. AH AH.*pitch increase* AH. AH. HA AH AH.

10 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

I thought you where laughing like Armin but it took me a while

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

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10 years ago (deleted Aug 17, 2016 12:22 AM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

its the most beautiful thing ive ever seen

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

both of them, I know

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

here's one more just for you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDdu8BG43BY

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

who the fuck is this swiimer guy?

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

these were so awful. I loved it

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Question. HOW DO YOU SEND A PICTURE FROM FREAKING TITAN TO EARTH? ENGINEERS, EXPLAIN!

10 years ago | Likes 36 Dislikes 0

Have you never seen the tiny spot on the Verizon coverage map labeled Titan? It's next to Hawaii

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

the post mate.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Drop that shit in the mail, bro

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Fun fact, the 10W radio carrier signal from the Huygens probe was picked up by listening stations on Earth.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

You do realize they are sending signals back, not actual pictures, right? Do you also wonder how your TV gets a picture?

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

one bit at a time

10 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

You... I like you...

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

infrared

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The data is transmitted via digital/radio signals often in microwave length waves. It is powered by solar panels to do so.Decrypter on earth

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

AOL

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

There is a really cool documentary about building the satellite while no one had any idea what they were doing and just winging it.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

"Improvisation is a parlor trick. Anyone can do it."

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Magnets.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

UPS has same day delivery

10 years ago | Likes 33 Dislikes 0

Cassini (the orbiter) receives data from Huygens (the lander) and sends it back to Earth. Here's a Cassini pic:

10 years ago | Likes 37 Dislikes 0

Meanwhile, I drop cell calls in my own house.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

And yet I still can't get fiber optic in my area. You are failing, private sector.

10 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 1

I wonder what kind of ping they get on Titan

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

probably better than mine now -_-

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

My brain is aroused...

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I'm happy to concur

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I'm an idiot. I read that as it being a picture OF Cassini. I wasn't sure if you meant Cassini was Saturn.

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Well it's technically an orbiter...

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Me too

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

We have the ability to send data from literally PLANETS away? Technology is great.

10 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 1

U stupid bro?

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 10

U a wanker bro?

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 2

That's how we have pictures of urmom. She's in orbit too

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Just consider the fact that we're still receiving data from Voyager 1!

10 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

As of present, the signal takes more than 18 hours to travel from Voyager 1 (14 hours for Voyager 2). Farthest human made object ever.

10 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

If I remember correctly, Voyager 1 recently escaped the gravitational influence of the sun didn't it? Like, it's in "deep space" now.

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0