Spacecraft Spots Probable Waves On Titan's Seas

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday December 16, 2014 @08:36PM from the surf's-up dept.

sciencehabit writes: It's springtime on Titan, Saturn's giant and frigid moon, and the action on its hydrocarbon seas seems to be heating up. Near the moon's north pole, there is growing evidence for waves on three different seas, scientists reported at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union. Researchers are also coming up with the first estimates for the volume and composition of the seas. The bodies of water appear to be made mostly of methane, and not mostly ethane as previously thought. And they are deep: Ligeia Mare, the second biggest sea with an area larger than Lake Superior, could contain 55 times Earth's oil reserves.

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does not compute by Anonymous Coward · 2014-12-16 20:40 · Score: 5, Insightful

bodies of water made of methane?
Re:Oil Reserves. by Anonymous Coward · 2014-12-17 00:53 · Score: 2, Insightful

FTFS:

It's springtime on Titan
I'm wondering how it is springtime on the whole moon at once.