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Titan's Icy Surface Revealed

Posted by michael on from the tire-chains-mandatory dept.

Sven-Erik writes "BBC News writes about an article in the journal Science: Scientists have peered through the smoggy orange haze of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, and seen icy bedrock exposed on the surface. The observations reveal a surface that is not entirely covered by liquid and solid organic materials that rain out of the atmosphere, as was thought."

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  1. hmmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    With all those hydrocarbons Titan could be next for a liberation

  2. Too hot, too little UV, said TISA by Muhammar · · Score: 3, Funny

    TISA experts conceded that while Earth has fairly dense atmosphere, its very high surface temperature and presence of oxygen makes the existence of liquid methane on Earth unlikely.

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