"Actually, if I read it correctly, it's been there for at least 26 years! Even more incredible."..........
............"what dynamic could possibly cause a series of hotspots to be evenly distributed and stable for 26 years in a spinning gas giant?"
......................>.............................> and dont forget about the liquid lakes on Titan, one of Saturns multiple Moons. And especially dont forget the South pole of Saturn where this object:-
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap061113.html......has been around for thousands of years.
Saturn is a VERY strange Planet indeed
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"You will never find a real Human being - even in a mirror." .....Mike Kremer.
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Update-
apparently after checking, there are no liquid lakes on Titan, at least not Methane, or Ethane.
But there is a large white or light continent that has been seen in its cloudless sky. These photo's have not been released yet.
More.
The study of all of Saturns moons is being undertaken by the Cassini-Huygens mission
Ever since the European Space Agency's Huygens probe, pierced the thick-dense haze of Titan's atmosphere, landing on its surface, suriving for several hours, and returned some stunning images.
The Cassini Saturn Space probe has undertaken to flyby most of Saturns moons, especially Titan, which NASA estimates it will fly past at least 45 times, sometimes as low as a few hundred kilometers from its surface.
Discoverys so far, -that Titan has an atmosphere 10 times denser than Earths, and very rich in organic material, has almost no clouds, and no evidence so far, of any lakes of Methane or Ethane on its surface, contary to first thoughts.
Since June 2004 Cassini has been manouvouring back and forth thru Saturns rings, photographing 21 of Saturns 36 moons, up to three times each. While Titan itself has been flown by 38 times. The last time being March 28th '07, (the other day).
Not all photographs of Saturn itself, have been published yet, it may be another six months before they are released.
Hopefully we may then solve more riddles regarding this amazing planet.
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"You will never find a real Human being - even in a mirror." .....Mike Kremer.
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