Thursday, July 20, 2006

Xanadu


Well they have found a place that might have life on it and could be a place for us to travel too later on in life.......here is the article from a website I found...


A network of river channels is located atop Xanadu, the continent-sized region on Saturn's moon Titan. This radar image was captured by the Cassini Radar Mapper on April 30, 2006.

These winding, meandering river channels start from the top of the image and run like a fork in the road, splitting to the right and left of the image. At Titan's chilly conditions, streams of methane and/or ethane might flow across parts of the region.

The picture is roughly 230 kilometers (143 miles) wide by 340 kilometers (211 miles) long, and shows features as small as 500 meters (1,640 feet).

The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter was designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The radar instrument was built by JPL and the Italian Space Agency, working with team members from the United States and several European countries

7 Comments:

At 20 July, 2006 16:54 , Anonymous Anonymous said...

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At 20 July, 2006 16:54 , Anonymous Anonymous said...

After this week, can you book me a flight here...

 
At 20 July, 2006 17:01 , Blogger mark said...

it would be nice to get away from the hussle and bussle of the city ...me and you could book a flight there and be the only ones there...might get boring...lol...

 
At 24 July, 2006 23:42 , Anonymous Anonymous said...

oh yes. i remember this one. 81 and olivia newton-john singing XANADUuuuuu...Xanaduuuu....

me? a teen in awe with it all, still am.LOL.

 
At 25 July, 2006 01:40 , Anonymous Anonymous said...

"In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea."


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanadu

 
At 25 July, 2006 01:46 , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Xanadu (disambiguation)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The name Xanadu is widespread and used for many subjects. Most uses of the word trace its origins to Xanadu, the summer capital of Kublai Khan's empire.

Other uses include:

Xanadu (song), a song recorded by the Canadian progressive rock trio Rush for their album A Farewell to Kings

Xanadu (Citizen Kane), the fictional mansion built by Charles Foster Kane in the film Citizen Kane

Watching Xanadu, a single recorded by Mull Historical Society

Xanadu (Titan), an enigmatic bright feature on the surface of Saturn's moon Titan

Project Xanadu, an ambitious early non-markup hypertext project

Xanadu House , a series of experimental homes, built to showcase computers and automation in the home

Xanadu (film), film starring Olivia Newton-John, with a hit song of the same title

Xanadu (comic), a comic book series by Vicki Wyman

Xanadu 2.0, the nickname of Bill Gates' futuristic private estate

Meadowlands Xanadu, a proposed entertainment, sports, and retail complex in New Jersey

Xanadu (game), a obscure series of computer role-playing games

Xanadu (video game), a video game by Falcom

Xanadu (snowpark), the biggest indoor snowpark in Europe, located at Arroyomolinos, near Madrid

Xanadu (virtual world), in the French animated series Garage Kids

Xanadu (artist), artist from New York that in 1980 recorded the song Sure Shot

Xanadu can also mean:

Xanadu, the name of Mandrake's estate in the old comic Mandrake the Magician

In Xanadu, a book written by William Dalrymple

Xanadu, the writers' retreat in Timequake, by Kurt Vonnegut

Return To Xanadu, a comic by Don Rosa

See also
Xandu, a possible misspelling of Xanadu

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanadu_%28disambiguation%29

 
At 25 July, 2006 02:05 , Anonymous Anonymous said...

"In xanadu did kublai khan
A pleasuredome erect"

FGTH.

http://www.lyricsfreak.com/f/frankie+goes+to+hollywood/welcome+to+the+pleasuredome_20057228.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welcome_to_the_Pleasuredome_%28song%29

 

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