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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.
Nov 2, 2014 3:08 PM
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thegr8rambino
when was this taken?
TravisMaxwell
Gravity on Titan is so low that the liquid Methane rain comes down very slow. It almost looks like its floating in the air.
twerkintrav
This was on a moon that doesn't orbit our planet. Neat.
mburicao
relevant http://img.memerial.net/memerial.net/5723/went-to-the-moon-took-5-photos.jpg
contextplease
NASA has potato phones that take vertical pictures. Thanks Obama.
ISleptWithSomeoneFromImgurAndAllIGotWasThisStupidUsername
even NASA has vertical pictures...
qqkikilicious
it's because they cropped out the aliens and trees growing
dronir
It was an ESA probe actually. It was a joint mission. Cassini, the orbiter that dropped it, was NASA's.
gronostaj
Vertical videos are bad. Vertical pictures are sometimes fine. (This one isn't, horizontal is called "landscape" for a reason)
Erleif
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt9zSfinwFA
jimmityjammity
Always turn your camera portrait if you're making a panno!
b1ackadder
It's because http://www.nbcnews.com/id/10265675/ns/technology_and_science-space/t/scientists-add-new-twists-titans-tale/
doctorlawyer
i imagine nasa posting this for the public for the first time and being like "sorry for the potato quality"
ZacMuerte
"yeah, nevermind that it's a multi-thousand dollar camera, it takes shit pictures, and is always whining about how cold it is."
JewishWheedle
This is why NASA needs more funding, for amazing stuff like this.
thefatlonelyjew
Yes plz more boring ass picture of space rokcs
Miniaturemac
You dunce. If we had even twice the amount of government funding Mars would have been colonized by the 90s.
trob749
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.
geriatricsanatore
They are still the most funded space agency in the world. I do agree they could use more though.
flyingdutchfrenchman
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 :(
Tankdoggy
And Mars
flyingdutchfrenchman
aaaand Mars of course, forgetting the oblivious
iLoveItWhenMyFingersSmellLikePussy
*obvious ;)
flyingdutchfrenchman
god damnit xD
matt48170
Looks homey.
DPHENS
AndIHaveNoIdeaWhatToPutHere
I love the punch!
MOTHERFUCKINGBERNIESANDERS
aww it cut out at the best part when he's punching the asteroids
AGGRESSIVLYPATRIOTICUSERNAME
WE RULE SPACE, SUCK IT REST OF THE WORLD!!!
LazyBrazilian
Why did they cut out the meteor punching part?? That was my favorite part!!
Jaimesmissinghand
YOU'RE NOT MANKIND!
TiarnanConnolly
Sick reference.bro
TexanLeadFarmer
AWESOME
Yourethemannowdawwwwg
woo
IfollowtheMessiah19
http://imgur.com/O1I5ArF
Jaimesmissinghand
The alien needs a 9gag or 4chan symbol on its face, haha!
Shitstick
Do you have a flag. . . . ?
iLoveItWhenMyFingersSmellLikePussy
What? We don't need a flag, this is our home, you bastards!
Or10nSharkFin
No flag, no country; you can't have one.
harmonicaman42
Those are the rules.. that I've just made up.
secretagentchewbacca
Excellent. Freaking love this commercial
mifi
Sauce please
FelixG
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnIH5rt6giY
mifi
Thank you
arcke
Where's Thanos?
thundrlipz
my thoughts exactly
TypicalCanadianHockeyLover
I always upvote outer space things
ModsSometimesHeedMyScamWarnings
So far I can confirm that this user does indeed, upvote space things. I have found a picture of HaveALlamaDay
Fishesuemarior
This is a better quality photo than some people post here with their phones. On earth.
PitbullsPublicist
are you sure this is not mexico ? sephia ?
Realitea
Technology is fucking amazing.
Luguber
what did they send there? a potato?
imnotthedoctor
Let's hope Titan isn't attacked
bimmerblondie
Was expecting dickbutt...
dakotaraptor
Looks a lot like venusian land.
banned2
Looks like venus surface
bipolarmolar
10 people were not impressed by this
LokiOnTheCouch
Probably the picture cropping master race
Pixelei1
Look at this photo. Really look at it. That's another planet. Let that sink in.
Pixelei1
And yes, I know it's a moon, that's not the point.
eighttwentysix
But where are all the Poozers?
theworldsmileswithme
It's blurry.
JoeliusCaezar
Why does this look like it was taken by an iPhone?
Rollback
lets free the fuck out of it.
Freud22
Plot twist: photo of under his bed
farleykroll
are we gonna colonize and teraform this bitch or what?!
terraforman
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.
commisarwolfe
so all i have to do is toss a match?
terraforman
No free oxidiser to react with. If you sprayed an oxygen tank onto it, sure, until the tank runs out.
JakeLippert
Nope. Everyone is missing the radiation that we'd have to go through would kill us.
terraforman
Saturn does not have as extensive of a radiation belt as Jupiter.
JakeLippert
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.
Kaitou
Mars has killer cockroaches.
ForestCreature
And the moon is an Egg
MethylUracil
LET'S TERAFORM THIS BITCH!! I'M READY!!
HitlersArtCritic
"Random people from the internet, none fit to fly to space, well now they're mining space oil far from home"
steep2798
Sometimes on Titan, it rains cyanide.
GreavesKo
OMG Cowboy Bebop was right!!!
Locnar
I've played enough Spore to know that this should be a piece of cake
GadgetFreehan
As long as we don't fucking employ Weyland-Yutani to do it
Iamahugefanofcamembert
yeah, cos we as a species have a great track record of doing that succesfully... *sarcasm*
ChuckKarma
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.
terraforman
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
vindik8or
Terraforming is less about technology and more about huge masses of resources and energy.
v3rmilion
I hope you like liquid methane.
SovietWrench
WAY too damn cold.
AnalBeard
Yeah, if you're a bitch.
tarataqa
Hire more Canadians.
thegr8rambino
once we make an engine that can go a little faster lel
NonExistingName
Given that that probe only survived for 3 hours before being flattened by crushing pressure, extremely intense heat and acid rain... (1/2)
NonExistingName
that may not be such a good idea.
dronir
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.
dronir
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.
NonExistingName
hmn yes. Wait, wasn't it Venus? I'm confused now
zalan26
Terraformers taught me that terraforming is a bad idea.
Punkzard
tarataqa
Star Trek III taught me that too.
TheWildebeast
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
Matrican
Yeah, the new Censorformers is good series indeed.
BloodRaptorX
It's what we call a shake 'n' bake colony. They set up atmosphere processors to make the air breathable. Big job. Takes decades.
fen4
Building Better Worlds.
johnson21
Kickstarter?
HitlersArtCritic
I heard Titan has tons of Oil. So probably going to get money from the US that it borrowed from China again.
kerms
The lakes and oceans are liquid methane, by the way. Pretty important to clarify that.
carrotsonfire
That gives another meaning to 'Liquid Fart'.
sooner518
marquisdechocula
Methane and methane accessories
sirhcb1
And ethane.
Flyndaran
And likely some interesting higher mass alkenes.
tasteslikechaos
And the "rocks" are water
NewKing
what
tasteslikechaos
The "rocks", they are ice.
AtalanBeardy
You can have ice of a lot of different things. Doesn't have to be water ice.
tasteslikechaos
Actually nope. Water is the word for liquid h2o ice is the word for solid h20. Source: i have my M.S. in Physics.
SalsaRice
I think by definition "ice" is frozen/solid water. Not sure of generic word for solid form of stuff though.
cyclone
Be a shame if someone were to *sunglasses* ATTACK IT
isayfuckoff
Ack Ack ack!
DoctorJungyBrongen
Us Americans are headed out there to liberate it soon.
releasetheboobs
Yeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh
Agramon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1sFPDXEYT4
educatedfool25
*potato eating intensifies*
TheLivingJesus
JaegerBombastic
TITANS ARE MY TRIGGER
tarataqa
TRIGGERS ARE MY TRIGGER
ErenBombasticOverHere
Oh what? Are you upset because your mom got nommed by a Titan?
CaptainMinnette
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLImJOIl2D8
MrPredator
I heard it has oil.
Mythmatic
Looks like Titan needs some freedom
omega315
You mean someone is going to do an *sunglasses* ATTACK ON TITAN?
REOSpeedWeed
SIE SIND DAS ESSEN UND WIR SIND DIE JAGER
ExoFox
HA. HA. AH. AH AH.*pitch increase* AH. AH. HA AH AH.
REOSpeedWeed
I thought you where laughing like Armin but it took me a while
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Jesusberry
its the most beautiful thing ive ever seen
REOSpeedWeed
both of them, I know
REOSpeedWeed
here's one more just for you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDdu8BG43BY
Jesusberry
who the fuck is this swiimer guy?
DidSomebodySaySpiderManThread
these were so awful. I loved it
ProjectFreak
Question. HOW DO YOU SEND A PICTURE FROM FREAKING TITAN TO EARTH? ENGINEERS, EXPLAIN!
Iggysay
Have you never seen the tiny spot on the Verizon coverage map labeled Titan? It's next to Hawaii
abysmalk
the post mate.
Iosephus
griffinzoth
Drop that shit in the mail, bro
Warmblood
Fun fact, the 10W radio carrier signal from the Huygens probe was picked up by listening stations on Earth.
contextplease
You do realize they are sending signals back, not actual pictures, right? Do you also wonder how your TV gets a picture?
viking272
one bit at a time
HappyEngineer
You... I like you...
yayayaimlordeyayaya
infrared
imshibagel
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
googgle
AOL
sueca
There is a really cool documentary about building the satellite while no one had any idea what they were doing and just winging it.
ProjectFreak
"Improvisation is a parlor trick. Anyone can do it."
ButmynameisDan
Magnets.
TechnoJesus
UPS has same day delivery
astropapi1
Cassini (the orbiter) receives data from Huygens (the lander) and sends it back to Earth. Here's a Cassini pic:
PhightinFirez
Meanwhile, I drop cell calls in my own house.
VikingsAreNinjaPirates
And yet I still can't get fiber optic in my area. You are failing, private sector.
HappyEngineer
I wonder what kind of ping they get on Titan
ConductorOfTheStruggleTrain
probably better than mine now -_-
LatchHookRug
My brain is aroused...
astropapi1
HappyEngineer
I'm happy to concur
slightlylucid
I'm an idiot. I read that as it being a picture OF Cassini. I wasn't sure if you meant Cassini was Saturn.
HappyEngineer
Well it's technically an orbiter...
SheepSyndrome
Me too
ProjectFreak
We have the ability to send data from literally PLANETS away? Technology is great.
nycnewyork
U stupid bro?
FrustratedBluffing
U a wanker bro?
TheJerkNessMonster
That's how we have pictures of urmom. She's in orbit too
astropapi1
Just consider the fact that we're still receiving data from Voyager 1!
RedDread
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.
ConductorOfTheStruggleTrain
If I remember correctly, Voyager 1 recently escaped the gravitational influence of the sun didn't it? Like, it's in "deep space" now.