Carl Sagan and some REALLY fantastic graphics take us on a quick three minute tour of the Solar System. Whats really dorky about me is that I can identify all the bodies visited by sight alone except for one: Earth (obviously) Jupiter (identified by red spot) Io (identified by sulfur geysers) Saturn (identified by cloud bands and rings) Mars (identified by Deimos above, the big crater gives it away, and the red pock marked surface below, overhead and surface views) Hyperion with terraformed interior (identified by elongated shape and Saturn in the distance) Europa (identified by flat and frozen surface, with Io, identified by yellow sulfur covered surface, and Jupiter in the distance) Titan (identified by low gravity but atmosphere thick enough to support wing suit flight, and only other body in the system other than Earth with large amounts of surface liquid, in this case lakes of ammonia) A moon of Uranus (This one stumped me, but I know its Uranus by the pale green color and the faint cloud bands indicate that the planet is laying on its side) Titan (second time, identified by thick clouds, no need for a pressure suit, and the rings of Saturn above)
Posted on: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 00:34:49 +0000
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