Who will feed my Titan addiction today?
Data beamed back from Titan, one of Saturn’s moons, sketched a picture of a pale orange landscape with a spongy surface topped by a thin crust. “The closest analogs are wet sand or clay,” said John Zarnecki, in charge of instruments analyzing Titan’s surface.
Or CNN?
“Titan a ‘creme brulee’-like surface”
“We think this is a material which may have a thin crust, followed by a region of relatively uniform consistency,” John Zarnecki, the scientist in charge of experiments on Titan’s surface said at a televised news conference from the control center in Germany.
Zarnecki said one of his colleagues had suggested another analogy: creme brulee. “But I don’t suppose that will be appearing in any of our papers,” he said.
Aw, c’mon, John, why not? I’m glad CNN had the good taste to include it.
| All things Titanical, cont’d.
Thanks to BoingBoing for pointing out this great old Time Magazine cover. I also turned up some fun results from the new Technorati tag game for “titan” and “orange.” |
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