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Picture from the surface of TITAN!

>OVER 35 TIMES THE DISTANCE FROM EARTH TO MARS

Curiosity are you even trying?

>> No.4955952

Come back, when you have a picture of uranus.

>> No.4955957

Titan. I know it's a moon, but I don't remember of what planet.

>> No.4955958

Come back when you have a picture from the surface of the sun.

>> No.4955961

>>4955957
If only there was a search engine that could find the URL of google for you ...

>> No.4955962

>>4955957
saturn
i really wish we would explore this moon more though.

>> No.4955975
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>> No.4955977
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Titan's permanent hurricane at the south pole.

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>>4955975
So are they gonna drill Europa or what?

>> No.4956052

>>4956043
there really isnt a point to at the moment.

>> No.4956054

>>4955975
titan is interesting

>> No.4956334
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4956334

Here is a video taken from the titan lander, looking straight down, The soundtrack is made from applying different sounds to spacecraft systems' status:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/multimedia/pia08117.html

>> No.4957129
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>>4955948

I'll raise you this: taken from the surface of Venus.

>> No.4957199

>exploring other planets
>haven't even landed on the moon for decades
Jesus humans, get your shit together.

>> No.4957335

>>4957129
that was the ruskies that did venus right?

>> No.4957346

>>4956052
But what if Water Aliums?

But really, Europa is interesting, but it's not worth risking a rover on.

>> No.4957402

>>4957199
>Implying we need to go to the Moon.

>> No.4957820

>But what if Water Aliums?
Wouldn't that be the goal for sending a probe through the ice?

>> No.4957892
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4957892

Mmmm.... I'd like to step onto the surface of Titan, if you know what I mean.

>> No.4957902
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>landing an immobile paperweight on Titan
Are you even trying, Cassini?

>in all seriousness I fucking love Hyugans, I eagerly await a rover on Titan to roll up to a methane lakeshore.
>also, if we did land a rover there, would it have to be self-automated entirely? What's the signal delay between Titan and us? Several hours, I would imagine.

>> No.4957937

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned that the combination of Titan's thick atmosphere and low gravity, a human could strap on wings and fly like a bird

>> No.4958244
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4958244

hey guys.....how's it goin?

>> No.4958302

>>4958244
Love that picture

>> No.4958308
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>>4957902
(Sorry for shitty paint work.
The two small circles represent Earth and Mars.
Now keep in mind, It takes fourteen minutes for a signal to go from Earth to Mars and back.

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>> No.4958353

>>4956334

that was fucking awesome

>> No.4958364

>>4955962
Someday. It's so far though.

>> No.4958385
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4958385

everybody neglects Ceres. The largest of the asteroids, It is a small icey world that is much closer than the gas giant moons but has a similar water rich composition. Just past mars, warmer than the gas gaint moons, possible life

LETS GO THERE!!!!

>> No.4958399

>>4958385
http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/

on the way, should arrive in 2015

>> No.4958407

>>4958346
wtf is itokawa

>> No.4958427

>>4958407
...a tiny little asteroid the Japanese landed on.

http://www.jaxa.jp/article/special/hayabusa_sp3/index_e.html

>> No.4958432

>>4958399
Dawn is also awesome because it doubles as a test of using an ion drive to fly around cheaply in places without big gravity wells

>> No.4958490

>>4957199

I'm not terribly excited about human space exploration at the present. It's fine in a dick waving contest with a rival superpower, but the scientific gains are limited. Rovers are the way to go.

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>>4958399
The Vesta "snowman"