Titan Moon's Bright Hot Spot

An anonymous reader writes "Saturn's largest moon, Titan, has been the target of great interest because of its unusual pre-biotic chemistry and thick atmosphere. The Colorado-Boulder Space Science Institute announced a new mystery today involving a persistently bright spot, perhaps one of four possibilities. The spot could be a surface coloration, a mountain range, a cloud, or a hot spot."

Comments

Hot Spot?

[TimTheFoolMan]

As long as there's WiFi there, who cares how cold it is?

Tim

Re:Hot Spot?

[TimTheFoolMan]

As long as it doesn't say, "Posted: The 3rd planet is scheduled for demolition due to plans for an intergalactic bypass..."

Fifth possibility: pre-biotic party!

[noidentity]

I, for one, welcome our new pre-biotic lifeform overlords!

When you're hot, you're hot

[Greg Hullender]

From the article: If the spot glows at night, researchers will know it's hot.

It's good to know we've got our brightest people on this.

--Greg

Re:When you're hot, you're hot

[NanoGator]

"Why can't we point an infrared camera at it?"

There's an obelisk in the way.

Re:Life, evolution, everything...

[kfg]

What does it mean to Slashdot people?

Really cool pets.

KFG

Entertainment

[Bob Gelumph]

Couldn't it just be a red light district? Even the most remote hell-hole needs hookers.

approximately the size and shape of West Virginia

[exp(pi*sqrt(163))]

This is getting insane. Why would I ever use West Virginia as a unit of area? From reading stories on /. I'm much more familiar with the surface of Titan than West Virgina (and I suspect I'm not the only one). Shouldn't we be measuring the size of West Virgina in Titans?