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Nothing to do with the rovers but just a thought;scientists are arguing that Arctic ice on Earth will completely disappear by the end of the century due to global warming on this planet.How can one explain the same phenomenon occurring on Mars with the shrinking of the polar caps indicative of a similar global warming and yet there is no such burning of oils and industrial pollution as on Earth.Could the global warming on both planets be indicative of a solar origin rather than an  8)  earthly one???

Looking at the Schenzou 5 looks quite impressive thou one would think its the Russian Soyuz craft!Havent seen the Schenzou 6 model and it should be bigger than the previous one they flew on the first chinese manned flight.Look out for the chinese...they seem to have made huge progress already!

Radar image revealing a possible shoreline complete with channels draining into the flat dark terrain is very suggestive of a possible methane sea on Titan.That would be great news if it could be confirmed true.Pity that they could not retrieve all radar data.Unfortunately,I have not heard of any radar reflection from the dark surface to confirm its a liquid surface.To me that radar image looks very similar to images taken by the Huygens probe on its way  to landing on Titan and yet,Huygens touched down on mud and not liquid.Hope that is not the case!

Tethys close ups definitely looks more like Callisto;I'd have to agree with that! Hyperion from a distance looks like  beehive!It looks like its covered with some sort of dust;there's even evidence of landslides in some of the craters.            PS  nothing to do with Saturn moons and planetary science but  why PALOMAR,  Cindy??

Thanks to Cindy,visitors visiting this forum will surely keep themselves up to date!So keep it up Cindy  I have seen that first pic from Tethys and to be honest,I may not have seen any terrain like it so it seems that we're on to something new.Of course,we have not seen any close ups of Rhea and Dione yet,but if I may ,perhaps the terrain which mostly resembles Tethys' would be that of Ganymede and Callisto and I would think maybe Triton but again,I'd say they're still different in their own ways.Perhaps this is an example of a frozen watery world in a class different from what we've seen before. What do you think Cindy ?

Any news regarding the nature of the lake feature they identified during previous flyby?They seem to have problems in retreiving all data from last flyby.Anyways,the radar images submitted  still look impressive.

When can we expect first results from MARSIS experiment?Does anyone know? :;):

First time i glimpsed at new pics from Enceladus flyby,i thought i was looking at Europa and wondered what that has to do with Cassini mission!Similar processes going on on Enceladus???Any explanations for similar geologic features? ???

Having followed  the science briefing today at JPL,it looks like there are very dark areas on the surface of Titan which could be lakes,one in particular could be as big as Lake Tahoe!Interesting still,is that smooth surfaces made up of fluids   may not be so clear to RADAR if the surface is roughened by waves.I hope that future flybies will definitely answer the question of fluids on Titan.

Assuming the dark areas are rich in water ice(thats what we were told after the first Titan flyby at SOI)and the dark channels draining into the dark areas therefore have been sculpted by water;we know that water at -200 celcius is solid and thus the explanation for flowing water on Titans surface could be due to geyser activity which erupts liquid water at higher tempererature,evntually freezing over on the surface forming the dark areas!

New Titan images :low medium resolution images in on Nasa Tv

How long is the communication link between Earth and Cassini?I'm surprised as to the lenght of time its goona take to confirm the flyby?Flyby occurred like an hour ago and it will take another 7 hours to confirm that!