Full Moons
By lefty
Randy Moss' exuberant display of his bare butt is all over the news and sports shows this week. Yet another proud "wardrobe malfunction" from our friends in the NFL. Guess what? This blog is NOT about that particular moon! It's about the big rock circling Saturn, and the first pictures ever taken from the surface of a moon other than our own. And it's here because, well, we just think it's very, very cool. And it's not about Randy Moss.
The European Space Agency launched the space probe Huygens in 1997 from Cape Canaveral, Fla., in a joint effort by NASA, and today have released the first photographs of the surface of Titan. A permanent haze in Titan's atmosphere has kept astronomers from getting a better picture through telescopes.
The rocks in the foreground are smaller than boulders and simply look big because they are close to Huygens' camera. Scientists believe its atmosphere is similar to that of early Earth's and studying it could provide clues to how life arose on our planet.
Click here for the AP story on Yahoo! And click here to see more pictures and hear audio from the Titan's surface.
