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Liquid Lakes On Saturn's Moon Confirmed
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."
This is the official "invade Saturn" thread. Please post all jokes about the united states invading Saturn here, so as not to contaminate more serious discussion.
On another note, can anyone tell me about the chances of this being a good environment for oil eating bacteria?
If video games influenced behavior the Pac Man generation would be eating pills and running away from their problems.
... beyond Earth ...
Would not that mean past earth, like mars ++ ?
Venus is closer to the sun than the earth.
This was predicted by Nostrodamus. KISS played a song in praise of it: here.