Reythia
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Re: Drizzly Mornings on Xanadu
That's a cool article. Titan is a fascinating place!
Before landing, however, let's make sure we have the "radiation caused by a large planet" issue figured out, shall we?!
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10/16/2007, 4:40 pm
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Re: Drizzly Mornings on Xanadu
Shouldn't the radiation be absorbed by the dense atmosphere? 
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10/16/2007, 5:18 pm
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Re: Drizzly Mornings on Xanadu
Hmmm.... I'm not sure. Possibly. Though really, it's Earth's Van Allen Belts, not the atmosphere that protect us from the Sun's radiation. Saturn's version of a Van Allen Belt CAUSES the radiation in the areas through which it moves (and those in which its moons pass). I'm not really sure whether the radiation would be eliminated by an atmosphere, or if the radiation would just energize parts of that atmosphere instead.
Good question! Anyone have any theories?
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