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   Message 875 of 1,217   
   Bill Higgins to Cray74@gmail.com   
   Re: Light on Titan   
   01 Mar 05 15:24:05   
   
   From: higgins@fnal.gov   
      
   On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Cray74@gmail.com wrote:   
      
   > Titan starts off with dim sunlight (14W/m^2), and then adds thick haze.   
   > However, it is probably better lit than Earth under a full moon, so   
   > there was enough light for landscape photos.   
      
   This is scarcely quantitative, but at one of the Huygens press conferences,   
   Martin Tomasko, principal investigator of the Descent Imager, described   
   compared the surface images to "taking pictures of an asphalt parking lot at   
   dusk."   
      
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