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And that's why you cannot see down to the
surface
with our eyes in the visible region of the spectrum.
But these haze particles, it was surmised, before we got there with Cassini, over billions and billions of years, gently drifted down to the
surface
and coated the
surface
in a thick organic sludge.
And these molecules, especially methane and ethane, can be liquids at the
surface
temperatures of Titan.
You can have methane clouds, OK, and above those clouds, you have this hundreds of kilometers of haze, which prevent any sunlight from getting to the
surface.
The temperature at the
surface
is some 350 degrees below zero Fahrenheit.
But despite that cold, you could have rain falling down on the
surface
of Titan.
Try to imagine what the
surface
of Titan might look like.
That is the view that we had of the
surface
of Titan before we got there with Cassini, and I can tell you that what we have found on Titan, though it is not the same in detail, is every bit as fascinating as that story is.
We have instruments on Cassini which can see down to the
surface
through this atmosphere, and my camera system is one of them.
This, we later found out, is, in fact, a crater, but there are very few craters on the
surface
of Titan, meaning it's a very young
surface.
We deployed it to the atmosphere of Titan, it took two and a half hours to descend, and it landed on the
surface.
And I can't tell you what it was like to see the first pictures of Titan's
surface
from the probe.
So, this is the picture you would have at the window of Titanian Airlines as you fly across the
surface
of Titan.
And then finally, the probe came to rest on the surface, and I'm going to show you, ladies and gentlemen, the first picture ever taken from the
surface
of a moon in the outer solar system.
And Enceladus is very white, it's very bright, and its
surface
is obviously wrecked with fractures.
And we have arrived at the conclusion that these jets may be erupting from pockets of liquid water under the
surface
of Enceladus.
Now, on the surface, the deal appeared straightforward.
And curious to see if any of them made any noise, I dropped a hydrophone, an underwater microphone covered in rubber, down the mouth part, and immediately the critter began to absorb the microphone into its belly, and the tentacles were searching out of the
surface
for something of nutritional value.
And when there's enough moisture in the soil in the spring, frogs will dig themselves to the
surface
and gather around these large, vernal pools in great numbers.
A
surface
called the basilar membrane runs the length of the cochlea.
Imagine being able to create a shape on the outside of a surface, so that it's self-cleaning with just water.
The last time I'd painted, I was 16 years old at summer camp, and I didn't want to teach myself how to paint by copying the old masters or stretching a canvas and practicing over and over again on that surface, because that's not what this project was about for me.
I came together with a collaborator, Sheila Vand, and we had the idea of creating paintings in a more unusual surface, and that was milk.
But then again, I guess it's also not unforeseeable that you can find the strange in the familiar, as long as you're willing to look beyond what's already been brought to light, that you can see what's below the surface, hiding in the shadows, and recognize that there can be more there than meets the eye.
Well, it now turns out that the whales are crucial to sustaining that entire ecosystem, and one of the reasons for this is that they often feed at depth and then they come up to the
surface
and produce what biologists politely call large fecal plumes, huge explosions of poop right across the
surface
waters, up in the photic zone, where there's enough light to allow photosynthesis to take place, and those great plumes of fertilizer stimulate the growth of phytoplankton, the plant plankton at the bottom of the food chain, which stimulate the growth of zooplankton, which feed the fish and the krill and all the rest of it.
The other thing that whales do is that, as they're plunging up and down through the water column, they're kicking the phytoplankton back up towards the
surface
where it can continue to survive and reproduce.
And a few rise to the
surface.
How do we bubble stuff up to the
surface
that's maybe really creative and interesting?
Bogota, where Mayor Mockus, when he was mayor, he introduced a transportation system that saved energy, that allowed
surface
buses to run in effect like subways, express buses with corridors.
With a microscope, you can see them on a
surface.
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