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March 19, 2014

Falling in Love With the Dark

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I trained my eyes straight upwards, to the zenith,
and settled in as Nordgren used a laser pointer to explain what we could see in the night sky: giant clouds of interstellar dust and plumes of vaporized debris, some the size of the Earth. He talked about the surface of Titan, a moon of Saturn with Earth-like features, where under a smoggy orange layer it all looks like Minnesota’s Land of 10,000 Lakes, with fractal shores and frozen methane raining out of the sky. - - Light - Nautilus

Posted by gerardvanderleun at March 19, 2014 12:34 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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