Despite its impressive name and the fact that it’s the largest moon of the second largest planet in the solar system, Titan is very hard to see. To wit:

Small particles suspended in the upper atmosphere cause an almost impenetrable haze, strongly scattering light at visible wavelengths and hiding Titan’s surface features from prying eyes. But Titan’s surface is better imaged at infrared wavelengths where scattering is weaker and atmospheric absorption is reduced. Arrayed around this visible light image (center) of Titan are some of the clearest global infrared views of the tantalizing moon so far. In false colour, the six panels present a consistent processing of 13 years of infrared image data from the Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS) on board the Cassini spacecraft. They offer a stunning comparison with Cassini’s visible light view.

(Image: VIMS Team, U. Arizona, U. Nantes, ESA, NASA)

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Ah here.

Trainman Blues – Poor You

Fight the power.

Trainman Blues is the brainchild of Ireland’s Richard Farrell (top right) and Denmark’s Laust Nielsen (top left).

Richard says:

“Poor you is a song about oppression in all its forms. Be it racism, capitalism, homophobia, prejudice or narcissism, oppression needs to be spoken against, and here it is, in our voice.

Given the current climate of unrest in the US, we’d like to use this song and video to pay tribute to the Afro-American culture that we all love so much.

From the earliest recorded blues artists such as Mamie Smith, Robert Johnson and Son House, to all those unrecorded artists before them, whose names and sounds we do not know, on to all those whose names and music we do know.”

Nick says: I hear that lonesome whistle.

Trainman Blues

 

Former Minister for Health and current Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science Simon Harris.

Last Sunday

This afternoon

Orla writes:

He wasn’t struggling last weekend…

FIGHT!

Earlier: Par For The Course

 Resigned [Updated]

“An Unintended But Serious Lapse Of Judgment”

Put Your Dukes Up

Rollingnews

Sinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald

This afternoon.

Meanwhile…

…Catherine Murphy, co-leader of the Social Democrats, said:

“The resignation of Minister Calleary is symptomatic of the contradictory messaging and widespread confusion that has followed Tuesday’s announcement of new restrictions.

The days following the announcement have been characterised by a bizarre television appearance by the Minister for Health and clarification after clarification from various Government departments.

“Since the Dáil went into recess at the end of July, the Government has lurched from one crisis to the next. We have had three counties in lockdown for the past fortnight and it now looks likely that the Cabinet will act on NPHET’s recommendation to extend localised restrictions in Kildare for another two weeks.

“The events of the past 24 hours highlight the need for all relevant Government ministers to come into the Dáil and clearly explain what the strategy is for dealing with this crisis.”

Earlier: Par For The Course

 Resigned [Updated]

“An Unintended But Serious Lapse Of Judgment”

Put Your Dukes Up

Rollingnews

Former Attorney General and Supreme Court member Seamus Woulfe (centre) and President Michael D Higgins at Aras an Uachtarain with then Taoiseach Leo Varadkar in 2017

Statement from Supreme Court judge Seamus Woulfe

This afternoon.

Meanwhile…

Oh.

Earlier: Par For The Course

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