... but when I saw what is happening to the Martian Chronicles, I changed my mind.

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People seem less crazy about Saturn than Mars. At least as long as no one brings up baby elephants Fithpping with the F-ring.

I think the Saturn mission is exciting, even more so in some ways than the Mars missions. If the Titan probe manages to snap a few pictures on its way down and actually land....

There will be a rush of excitement about Saturn over the next couple of weeks and then again at the end of the year when Huygens visits Titan. But barring significant findings (I shouldn't say that because there WILL be significant findings), the continuing interest will be moderate.

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Just imagine a Face on Titan

Lime Jello on Phoebe ???
Maybe not. The CO2 deposits are way cool though.

Unidentified material? We've discovered a whole new material! Yea! Maybe it's kryptonite.

Seriously, by saying it is unidentified they are not saying that it is some new material never seen on Earth. Rather we just don't know what it is yet. It could be a very mundane substance that we just can't sort which one yet.

I think surface landers and rovers tend to attract wider general public interest than orbiters, so the combination of a Rover and the uniqueness of the planet Mars in the collective mythology (i.e. it's been a woo woo magnet since Lowell, the original proto-woo-woo himself) means there's plenty of Mars action here on the bulletin board.

I agree with ToSeek, after the Huygens probe has done it's thing, interest in Cassini will fall to the same level of interest that the Galileo orbiter had. i.e, people like us, the keen space fans, will follow it, but the general public won't.

Not being cynical, just realistic.

Rob

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Well, Lowell was not a real scientist, but without his woo-wooing Mars probably wouldn't have such high interest in general public it has.

Agreed. It's somewhat painful that Mars gets all the attention (well, it is really interesting), because there is so much more interesting things in in our solar system from which we know next to nothing.

Wait for it, I bet we'll soon be seeing "these blown-up jpegs of Saturn's rings show a spaceship". :roll:

And it's drive system braided the f-rings.....

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441!!!! :)

You probably thought you were joking.

WARNING: GLP THREAD!

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notice this part:
Richard X Frager AKA Art WholeFlaffer is well-known in woo-woo circles

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Mars isn't even getting that much attention any more.

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lol, Thanks for that Squink. I was hoping somebody would bring that up. 8)

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No, I actually was expecting it. After a year-and-a-half on this board not much from woo-woo land surprises me anymore.

Here's a question now that we have a Cassini-Huygens mission going to Saturn, yet this is a mars thread

how do we fit the two topics into the one Subject



Answer:



Let's discuss the unusual Cassini Crater on Mars in tribute to the Cassini man !
what do you think created this feature and when was the crater supposed to have been formed ?

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary...ew/marsc21.gif

Cassini Crater is in the right half of this image.

Personnaly I like the Cassini mission. When it was launched I was so excited and thought - what I have to wait so many years to see the result ? Now that Cassini has finaly completed it's journey I am very happy.