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Titanian Seas
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Cassini peers through the murky orange haze of Titan to spy what are believed to be bodies of liquid hydrocarbons, 2 of them as large as seas on Earth, near the moon's North Pole. This picture blends a near natural-color view and an infrared glimpse of Titan's surface obtained by the visual cameras, followed by a transition to imagery collected by the radar instrument aboard Cassini, for a dramatic reveal of the North Pole of Saturn's largest moon.
As the image zooms in on the North Pole, the most readily visible bodies are outlined in blue. The largest of these, on the left, is as big as the Caspian Sea on Earth; the next largest, on the right, is about the size of Lake Superior. When compared to the surface area of Titan however (which is six times smaller than Earth's), these bodies are equivalent in size to the Bay of Bengal and Timor Sea, respectively. Geographically speaking, they are more like seas.
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Ve lo dico io: perchè è lontano. Fisicamente ma, soprattutto, dall'Immaginario Collettivo.
E sono questi, rispettivamente, i cardini della disinformazione e del silenzio: per gli oggetti vicini, si parla a vanvera, si straparla o si disinforma.
Per quelli lontani...si tace.
La "Morale"? La solita: siamo alla frutta......Anzi, la frutta è finita. Ora siamo all'amaro. - paolo