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Forum:	Satellites - Robotic Probes
Topic:	Cassini-Huygens at Saturn: Questions, comments

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Your Reply: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	[QUOTE]Originally posted by spaceuk: [B]I have been reading Christiaan Huygen's 'Treatise On Light' and the following extract seems appropriate for Friday's upcoming events: <BLOCKQUOTE>[i]The effects of which refractions are very remarkable; for by them we often see objects which the rotundity of the Earth ought otherwise to hide; such as islands and the tops of mountains when one is at sea.[/i]</BLOCKQUOTE> Extracted from "On The Refraction of Air" by Christiaan Huygens, 1629-1695. If you replace the word 'Earth' by the word 'Titan' then this could well be an eery and uncanny prediction of what we may 'discover' on Friday 14th January 2005 when the 'Huygen's space probe' descends through the orange-brown clouds and murkiness of the Saturnian moon Titan![/B][/QUOTE]
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