Most Interesting/Most Boring Objects in the Solar |
Most Interesting/Most Boring Objects in the Solar |
Jun 7 2007, 07:07 AM
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SewingMachine Group: Members Posts: 316 Joined: 27-September 05 From: Seattle Member No.: 510 |
Yes, it's time to Rock the Inner Geek and proclaim your love for what you consider to be what's hot and what's...well, boring in terms of planetary excitement. Criteria may include dynamicism, color, scale, grandeur, crater-counting wrist torture, budgetary reality, and whatever else you might consider relevant. I'll open with my own picks, without giving any particular reasons. (Earth can count if you like)
In descending order... Most Interesting: 1.) Io 2.) Titan 3.) Europa 4.) Enceladus 5.) Mars 6.) Triton 7.) Venus 8.) Pluto 9.) Dione 10. Iapetus Least Interesting: 1.) Rhea 2.) Luna 3.) Mercury 4.) Oberon 5.) Mimas 6.) Tethys 7.) Callisto 8.) Ganymede 9.) Earth 10.) New Jersey -------------------- ...if you don't like my melody, i'll sing it in a major key, i'll sing it very happily. heavens! everybody's all aboard? let's take it back to that minor chord...
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Nov 11 2007, 04:59 PM
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The moons of the outer planets fascinate me the most. Granted most of them are uninterested hunks of rock, but there is such diversity too! I guess Europa is the most intriguing with its hypothesized underground liquid water ocean kept war by tidal forces feeding steam vents.
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Nov 12 2007, 02:07 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 477 Joined: 2-March 05 Member No.: 180 |
The moons of the outer planets fascinate me the most. Granted most of them are uninterested hunks of rock, but there is such diversity too! I guess Europa is the most intriguing with its hypothesized underground liquid water ocean kept war by tidal forces feeding steam vents. Agreed. I was all hopeful about the Prometheus project allowing for powerful orbiters to be put around Jupiter, but of course that was canceled. Europa's got a young, active surface, and I find those colored cracks especially interesting. (Wouldn't it be incredible if the coloration was from plant-life, killed off by sudden exposure to space?) Whatever the coloration is, it's something welling up from below the icy crust. An orbiter could give more data about Europa, and maybe it could find fresh cracks, where an lander could gain easy access to new material from below the surface. But that's likely a long time away. Too darn much radiation for most of our electronics, too. |
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