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(Photos courtesy NASA.)
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(Well, they would have been courtesy NASA, if I'd asked. I bet.)
Yawnarama. But clicking through the rest of the pics I noticed some photos of Saturn's baig ol' moon Titan:
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Ganesa Macula cryovolcano.
They reminded of some maps I have. A friend who was then a student at Colorado School of Mines saw these maps being thrown out behind the school library and, in one of history's great dumpster dives, retrieved a whole bunch of them:
Torre Del Greco, east of Naples, 1883 ("Edizione 1905"). Not taken from space.
They're so old they're actually printed on cloth.
Mount Etna, 1883 (1897 ed.).
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Impact crater on Titan.
Isole Eolie, Sicily, 1880 (1899 ed.).
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Island in a lake, Titan.
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Titan again.
By the way, if you can't see intelligent design in this next Cassini photo, you're just blind:
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Saturn's rings with planetary shadow.
See him? It's a miracle! Somebody tell Kirkpatrick Sale and Glenn Morris!
Update: I spelled Kaczynski's name wrong the first time, but only by a letter.
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