Saturn's moon looked like a snowy Utah landscape in my mind. The reality is just as compelling
A famous illustration of Saturn's moon Titan got it all wrong. Never mind -- what we imagine space to be, and what we know it is, can both evoke the sublime.
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Saturn's moon looked like a snowy Utah landscape in my mind. The reality is just as compelling
When the probe — named Huygens, for the 17th century Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens who discovered that world — transmitted its first pictures, the painted moonscape clashed with the real ...
The New Yorker23d
He Was a Genius for the Ages. Can We Give Him a Break?
Gottfried Leibniz made conceptual advances that lie behind our digital world. Yet for centuries he was mocked for a misstep.
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Christiaan Huygens
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The Debrief27d
NASA’s Dragonfly Mission Set to Reveal Clues to the Mysteries of Saturn’s Moon Titan
Discovered through telescopic observations by Christiaan Huygens in 1655, Titan has rivers, lakes, and seas of methane and ethane liquids, which follow an evaporation and precipitation cycle similar ...
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Space photo of the week: Look into Titan's 'eye,' 20 years after the Huygens spacecraft's historic landing on Saturn's largest moon
Why it's so special: This picture was taken by the European Space Agency's Huygens probe during its historic parachute descent onto Titan's surface on Jan. 14, 2005. At the moment this image was ...
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Saturn’s Rings Are Disappearing—But They’ll Be Back
Saturn’s rings, imaged here by NASA’s Cassini orbiter, are one of the solar system’s most reliably spectacular sights. But ...