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Mark Garlick Gives you a Tour of Titan

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With lightning :D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nszu4jKMldI Want more? Take this brief tour of Proxima Centauri, possibly our nearest exoplanet: https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=VYDucv9zqxk Mark Garlick writes about Proxima: Proxima Centauri has been in the media a lot lately. This tiny red dwarf - only 1/7 the diameter of the Sun - is the closest star outside the Solar System, at 4.25 light-years. What's so special about it? Well, it's got a planet in orbit around it dubbed, unceremoniously, Proxima b. The media has been calling this an 'Earth-like' planet but that's a misnomer. What they mean is terrestrial - it's made of rocky and metal, like the Earth, not a fluid like say Jupiter. But it could easily be as airless as Mercury or as sterile and stifling as Venus. Personally, I think it's likely to have some sort of atmosphere. It's heavier and bigger than the Earth, so it has the gravity to retain heavy gases, unlike Mercury and Mars. It ...

Granado Nico/Titan

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Nico's information has been out a couple of days, but I wanted to be sure I had his stats right before I wrote anything about him. He's a big boy: He's so big that Granado will be shipping him in two boxes , at least if you order the body at the next order period (scroll down to see the info). It's not so much that he is tall; a mecha Angel Sabik is 80 cm, and my Mr. Roboto is 86.5 cm, it's just that Nico is solidly built. I love his head..he's painted really well by Box of egg and he looks adorable in his Santa outfit: