Re: Huygens shortlived?

From: Eric Chomko (echomko_at__at_polaris.umuc.edu)
Date: 01/22/05 

To: sci-space-tech@moderators.isc.org
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 19:16:06 +0000 (UTC)

Joseph Lazio (jlazio@adams.patriot.net) wrote:
: >>>>> "RK" == Rodney Kelp <Rodneykelp605@hotmail.com> writes:

: RK> When they going to take a look at the surface of Saturn?

: They aren't, and they can't. In all likelihood, Saturn does not have
: a "surface." Rather, the atmosphere just keeps getting denser and
: denser as you go deeper.

Wouldn't it make sense that Saturn, as well as the other gas planets, has
a thick atmosphere, followed by a liquid layer and then a solid layer
(lithoshere). Unlike earth, they would be gradual from gas to liquid and
liquid to solid. Just a theory of course.

Eric

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