arstechnica
01-24-2005, 12:03 PM
Start your week off with a hearty dose of science news! This week, Science.Ars looks to the cosmos with coverage of the Titan landing.
As soon as the first detailed pictures were returned from Titan's surface by the Huygens probe, scientists were claiming the mission a tremendous success. Now that scientists have had time to pore over the data, they are seeing geological structures and other features that remind them of a colder version of Earth. Instead of seeing geological features carved by water, Huygens has sent back evidence that river systems and mud flats have been formed by flowing liquid methane.
While the news was good from Titan, it is not looking nearly as good for the Hubble Space Telescope. NASA has all but ruled out any sort of repair mission, and the Bush administration has ruled out any funding for it in the 2006 NASA budget.
Here on Earth, Science.Ars looks at human behavior and science on TV. Read on!{br}{br}View the Entire Article (http://arstechnica.com/columns/science/science-20050124.ars){br}
As soon as the first detailed pictures were returned from Titan's surface by the Huygens probe, scientists were claiming the mission a tremendous success. Now that scientists have had time to pore over the data, they are seeing geological structures and other features that remind them of a colder version of Earth. Instead of seeing geological features carved by water, Huygens has sent back evidence that river systems and mud flats have been formed by flowing liquid methane.
While the news was good from Titan, it is not looking nearly as good for the Hubble Space Telescope. NASA has all but ruled out any sort of repair mission, and the Bush administration has ruled out any funding for it in the 2006 NASA budget.
Here on Earth, Science.Ars looks at human behavior and science on TV. Read on!{br}{br}View the Entire Article (http://arstechnica.com/columns/science/science-20050124.ars){br}