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Lake On Titan Winks From a Billion Kilometers Away

Posted by timothy on from the next-time-send-chocolate dept.

The Bad Astronomer writes "NASA's Cassini spacecraft took an image of Saturn's giant moon Titan earlier this year that serendipitously provides proof of liquid (probably methane) on its surface. The picture shows a glint of reflected sunlight off of a monster lake called Kraken Mare (larger than the Caspian Sea!). Scientists have been getting better and better evidence of liquid methane on Titan, but this is the first direct proof."

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  1. Re:billion kilometers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Mod parent +1E0 Informative but Pedantic.

  2. Re:How do they know it's methane by daveime · · Score: 4, Funny

    ALL THESE FARTS ARE YOURS. USE THEM WISELY, AND DON'T LIGHT ANY NAKED FLAMES.

    EXCEPT TITAN. ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE, BECAUSE IT BLOODY STINKS.

    Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING. Yes, right, I'm sure Stanley Kubrick told Arthur C. Clarke the same thing when they were finalizing the screenplay. So now I'm reduced to typing a lot of mindless garbage just to get around the lousy Slashdot filter.

  3. Re:Liquid Methane Eh? by ozmanjusri · · Score: 3, Funny
    Thats what I call it when it doesn't come out as ass gas.

    Read the name of the "lake", - Kraken Mare.

    It's just a big puddle of sea-monster piss, nothing exciting at all.

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