Thursday, July 31, 2008

Liquid Lakes On Saturn's Moon Confirmed

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday July 31, @08:39AM
from the time-for-a-saturn-icon dept.
Riding with Robots writes "Scientists have been using the robotic spacecraft Cassini to explore what looked to be large lakes of hydrocarbons on the surface of Saturn's planet-sized moon Titan. But they couldn't be entirely sure that the features were actually liquid lakes, and not simply very smooth, solid material. Now, new findings seem to confirm that the observations really do show extensive seas of liquid ethane and other hydrocarbons. In fact, Titan seems to have an entire 'water' cycle of ethane evaporation, rain and rivers."

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