Cassini Discovers First River On Another World

Posted by timothy on Thursday December 13, 2012 @05:36AM from the ok-now-find-some-rafts dept.

AbsoluteXyro writes "NASA's Cassini orbiter, which has been dutifully exploring the Saturn system since 2004, has captured images of the first river ever observed on another world — and it's a biggun. 200 miles of flowing hydrocarbons meandering down a valley in the north polar region of Saturn's moon Titan, emptying into the awesomely named Kraken Mare — itself a body of liquid roughly the size of the Mediterranean Sea back on Earth. But don't think of going for an extraterrestrial skinny dip quite yet, temperatures on Titan average a brutally cold 290 degrees below zero (Fahrenheit)."

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Conspiracy can begin by epSos-de · 2012-12-13 05:43 · Score: 5, Insightful

The white spots on the river banks look like population hot-spots on earth.

Let the conspiracy theorists begin making up stuff.
Surely they will claim something about extra-terrestrial cities and FBI secrets.

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Re:How could water be flowing by Anonymous Coward · 2012-12-13 06:03 · Score: 5, Insightful

So, instead of reading the article, you decided to search wikipedia instead? That's so messed up....