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|    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."              --        "I showed *Dark Star* to a date once. | Bill Higgins        Surprisingly, she forgave me, | Fermilab        but the really amazing thing |       is that she later consented to marry me. :-)" | Internet:        -- Kent Budge, Sandia | higgins@fnal.gov              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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