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And Thar She Blows
Cassini finally got there (as scheduled, but it feels like a long time, you know?) for a flyby of Titan. Pictures have been released.

Kevin Baines, a member of the visual and infrared spectrometer team, said scientists were disappointed that they hadn't seen evidence of liquids through reflections of sunlight on smooth surfaces of the moon.

"We thought we'd see some flashes, and we haven't seen any. So we're a little perplexed," he said after a news conference at NASA (news - web sites)'s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.

Among the new pictures released were four images of a cluster of clouds near Titan's south pole that are believed to be composed of methane. They were the only brightly distinct spots on otherwise fuzzy images of Titan.

Has to be said these pictures are seriously cool.

- Art Neuro