Talk:NASA flyby of Saturn moon Titan produces first image of liquid on another world

Not "first"
This is not the "first image of liquid" on another world (Titan's lakes, have, for example, been imaged before). It's the first image of a "specular reflection". Aldaron (talk) 05:38, 21 December 2009 (UTC)


 * It is the first photograph. Perhaps I was a little careless with the title. Too long working in Wikimedia projects makes you think of pictures as 'images'. Blood Red Sandman  (Talk)   (Contribs) 12:18, 21 December 2009 (UTC)


 * What are the Huygens images then? How are they not photographs if this is? Aldaron (talk) 21:19, 21 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Got any proof of liquid? Answer: Yes, doubtless, but not in the pictures, at a pure guess because they aimed for a dry spot. Take it up with NASA; it was their anouncement. I doubt they'd fuck it up. Blood Red Sandman  (Talk)   (Contribs) 22:32, 21 December 2009 (UTC)


 * I agree, I doubt they would: image, image, image, image, etc. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Aldaron (talk • contribs) 20:19, 22 December 2009 (UTC)


 * And they say what I expected them to. They're very cautious. You know it's a lake, I know it's a lake, NASA knew they were lakes, but no-one said: "Look, there's liquid". For links one and three: "giant lake-like feature" (emphasis added) and "most likely a hydrocarbon lake" don't exactly say liquid. Second image is strongly suggestative of liquid, going so far as to proclaim that there is a lake, but again stops short of actually saying so. From the talk of possible flooding and possibly drained lakes they seem none too sure on that one. (Before saving I went back and checked that one. It's a radar image too.) On the last one the words "This radar image..." jump out at me and confirm this is not a photograph; as I said above, I can concede that I should have used a less ambiguous word. I haven't read the full of any of those descriptions but I wouldn't be surprised to discover they were all radar images. I say again: NASA said it. CNN repeated it; while I can accept that CNN are not exactly incapable of failing they are smart enough to parrot a press release properly. Blood Red Sandman  (Talk)   (Contribs) 20:58, 22 December 2009 (UTC)

Image replacement
File:Kraken Mare on Titan, Cassini.jpg will soon be deleted from Commons; please substitute it in the article by File:PIA12481_Titan_specular_reflection.jpg. --Túrelio (talk) 22:47, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
 * editprotected See above. - Xbspiro (talk) 14:02, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
 * ✅ --Mark Talk to me 14:28, 5 April 2010 (UTC)