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Cassini Sees a “Zen Garden” on Titan
Tuesday, April 8, 2014 16:45
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Radar image of rows of dunes on Titan (NASA/JPL-Caltech)
Looking like the flowing designs carved by a Zen gardener’s rake, long parallel dunes of hydrocarbon sand stretch across the surface of Saturn’s moon Titan. The image above, acquired by Cassini in July 2013, reveals these intriguing and remarkably Earthlike landforms in unprecedented detail via radar, which can easily pierce through Titan’s thick clouds.
I’m feeling a little more enlightened already.
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Source: http://www.universetoday.com/111055/cassini-sees-a-zen-garden-on-titan/
maybe its long dark rows of vegetation.