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NASA's Cassini Discovers Hydrocarbon Dunes On Titan (examiner.com)

Posted by samzenpus on from the different-dunes dept.

MarkWhittington writes: NASA made an announcement that Titan, a moon of Saturn and the largest moon in the solar system, has hydrocarbon dunes. The discovery has highlighted the entirely alien nature of Titan, which has seas, lakes and rains of liquid methane and ethane and a surface comprised on water ice. The fact that it has dunes made of frozen hydrocarbon that acts like sand, blown by the wind on Earth is yet another piece of data that has scientists interested in studying Titan further.

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  1. FYI: Titan is second largest in Solar System by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    > the largest moon in the solar system

    Jupiter's Ganymede has a diameter of 5268 km and Titan has a diameter of 5151 km. Titan is the second largest moon in the Solar System.