Cassini-Huygens

[Ozymandias]

I think this one has everything in. <br>(Information from The Times Online (<a href='http://www.thetimesonline.co.uk' target='_blank'>Located Here</a>). There's more stuff on there about it, if you want to take a look.<br><br><a href='http://search.thetimes.co.uk/cgi-bin/ezk2srch?-aSTART#' target='_blank'>"Software Glitch Mars Saturn Moonshot"</a><br><br><a href='http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.cfm' target='_blank'>Project Homepage</a><br><br>I, personally, am very excited about this, because of the moon iteslf: It is very similar to Earth millions of years ago, and is likely to have water in the form of ice. It will be interesting to see how it develops. Apart from the mistake with a coulpe of the measurement devices, and the software that's missing, it seems to have gone alright.

[Tomcat]

It's difficult to imagine what it might find. It's atmosphere make-up and distance from the sun really does rule out any chance at finding any sign of former life on the surface, and digging into the surface is out of the question with that particular probe. But possiblities of life aside, it'll be interesting to see what they can get out of this.<br><br>I'm not sure if it's been done, but what I'd really like NASA to do is a mission to Europa, the ice moon. If there's any planetoid in our solar system that could reveal virtually anything we want to know, I personally think it's be that one.

[Ozymandias]

It's not what's been, but what might be to come that's really got me

[Ruedii-X]

<!--QuoteBegin-Ozymandias+Jan 16 2005, 07:20 AM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (Ozymandias @ Jan 16 2005, 07:20 AM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> I think this one has everything in. <br>(Information from The Times Online (<a href='http://www.thetimesonline.co.uk' target='_blank'>Located Here</a>). There's more stuff on there about it, if you want to take a look.<br><br><a href='http://search.thetimes.co.uk/cgi-bin/ezk2srch?-aSTART#' target='_blank'>"Software Glitch Mars Saturn Moonshot"</a><br><br><a href='http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.cfm' target='_blank'>Project Homepage</a><br><br>I, personally, am very excited about this, because of the moon iteslf: It is very similar to Earth millions of years ago, and is likely to have water in the form of ice. It will be interesting to see how it develops. Apart from the mistake with a coulpe of the measurement devices, and the software that's missing, it seems to have gone alright. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br> At least someone can land a probe successfully *sarcastic* Maybe they didn't get their funding realocated to military projects, and supercomputers comendeered like NASA did.<br><br>Anyways, I'm surprised at what the pictures looked like. I always pictured titan as dusty desert planes pockmarked with craters like the Lunar deserts. It's got a surprising number of loose stones. It would be interesting to see an explination why thare are loose stones like that. Maybe they'll know once they get a better rock composition data.

[Burning Sheep Productions]

I heard about this, though they ought to go to Io, cuz it's got all them volcanoes.<br>Now is that Jupiter's moon or Saturn's?

[Steve the Pocket]

Jupiter's.

[Jay]

Titan orbits Saturn.<br><br><!--QuoteBegin-Ozymandias+Jan 16 2005, 06:24 PM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (Ozymandias @ Jan 16 2005, 06:24 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> It's not what's been, but what might be to come that's really got me<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br><br>Prospects for life starting there are dim. As Titan moves through Saturn's magnetosphere, it's not protected by it. In fact, the field channels extra particle stuff into Titan. The atmosphere does have a similar constitution, but the temperature's also much lower than here. <br><br>If you ask me, the jovians themselves are more interesting; we know less about their internal structure. The atmospheres are much different from the one we can study here at home, more different from ours than that of Titan. They're so incredibly different from anything we get to stucy up close I'm kinda surprised that Titan, being kinda similar to other rocky bodies, is the centre of gossip instead of Saturn itself... We know enough about all the rocky bodies we've discovered yet to consider life very, very unlikely but we don't know enough about the gas giants to say that to the same degree. There is a lot of energy available there, and there might be a lump of heavier elements at the core that can form complex mechanisms...<br><br>edit: BTW, I'll love forever any one who can point me to a really good online resource for info and theory (especially theory) regarding the Jovians, not just the ones in our solar system specifically but all in general.

[Rikirk]

Maybe these will help..<br><br><a href='http://www.hypography.com/article.cfm?id=32713' target='_blank'>http://www.hypography.com/article.cfm?i ... </a><br><a href='http://www.solstation.com/stars/jovians.htm' target='_blank'>http://www.solstation.com/stars/jovians ... <br><br>If these dont help,..the Nasa website may be of some service, or just google search what you need, Im sure something will turn up.<br><br><br><a href='http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/dor/i ... ccess.html' target='_blank'>http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/dor/i ... br><br><br>

[Jay]

SolStation's a nice directory, and this Hypography site looks interesting, but I'm looking for something with more in-depth knowledge and theory. Thanks, though. NASA.gov doesn't even need mention, it goes without saying. I was thinking of a webzine or club centered on gas giants. I don't even know whether what I'm looking for exists yet. This is an interest I've had on a back burner for a couple o' years now, so I've seen what's brought up right away by Googling "gas giant" or "jovian". I'm already searching around, I'm just asking if any one here happens to know of what I'm seeking. This thread seems the most likely place on this board for such a coincidence...

[Ruedii-X]

<!--QuoteBegin-Rikirk+Feb 6 2005, 12:35 AM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (Rikirk @ Feb 6 2005, 12:35 AM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Maybe these will help..<br><br><a href='http://www.hypography.com/article.cfm?id=32713' target='_blank'>http://www.hypography.com/article.cfm?i ... </a><br><a href='http://www.solstation.com/stars/jovians.htm' target='_blank'>http://www.solstation.com/stars/jovians ... <br><br>If these dont help,..the Nasa website may be of some service, or just google search what you need, Im sure something will turn up.<br><br><br><a href='http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/dor/i ... ccess.html' target='_blank'>http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/dor/i ... ss.html</a> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br> According to what I've seen, those rocks are a mixture of ice and dust, as is the dust on the surface. There is also liquid and gassous state methane on the planet. Methane circulates there like water does on earth. Very interesting indeed.