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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. mko3 up by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Usenet is 8Oughly

  2. Re:billion kilometers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    They're nigger billions - lots of ice and rock 'n' shit on them planets.