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Titan's Organics Surpass Oil Reserves on Earth

Posted by samzenpus on from the black-gold-titan-tea dept.

jcgam69 writes "Saturn's orange moon Titan has hundreds of times more liquid hydrocarbons than all the known oil and natural gas reserves on Earth, according to new Cassini data. The hydrocarbons rain from the sky, collecting in vast deposits that form lakes and dunes."

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  1. Re:Call me Uninformed...but by milsoRgen · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually hydrocarbons are more than just oil, methane for one. Which is believed to be located in several locations in our solar system.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methane#Extraterrestrial_methane

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  2. Re:Time for Space tankers to start taking flight by SquirrelsUnite · · Score: 5, Informative

    Cassini-Huygens is much more than a 350 kg probe. The main part of the mission is the Cassini spacecraft (weighing over 2 tonnes btw) which has been orbiting Saturn for three and a half years. About half of the cost was actually development, mostly for instruments on Cassini. This doesn't invalidate your argument but I don't want people to think that all we got for $3bn is a lander that worked for 1 hour.

  3. Re:crackpot??? by anagama · · Score: 5, Informative

    Finding hydrocarbons on another planet is not the same as finding long chain hydrocarbons on another planet.

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