Seeing Titan
Image Credit: VIMS Team, Univ. Arizona, U. Nantes, ESA, NASA

Explanation: Shrouded in a thick atmosphere, the surface of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is really hard to see. Small particles suspended in Titan's upper atmosphere cause an almost impenetrable haze, strongly scattering light at visible wavelengths and hiding surface features from prying eyes. Still, Titan's surface is better imaged at infrared wavelengths, where scattering is weaker and atmospheric absorption is reduced. Arrayed around this visible light image (center) of Titan are some of the clearest global infrared views of the tantalizing moon so far. In false color, the six panels present a consistent processing of 13 years of infrared image data from the Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS) on board the Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn from 2004 to 2017. They offer a stunning comparison with Cassini's visible light view. NASA's revolutionary rotorcraft mission to Titan's surface is due to launch no earlier than July, 2028.

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After about a year of working on it, my #NerdStitch cross-stitch tribute to the 1985 Amiga Deluxe Paint King Tut is done! Created from the original image, I did have to scale it down a little. The stitched version is 180x200, about 34,000 stitches.

Lil meowboy. Photo from my collection ca. 1950s.

today the US congress passed a law to prevent states from banning the use of gestational crates. i will never suffer anywhere near as much as a pig tortured by one of those crates, even though these pigs have done no harm to anyone, and i have done harm to many sentient creatures in my life. what do i have any right to say when i cannot even imagine the suffering of billions in these conditions around the world?