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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. Oxidizer by coolmoose25 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    On Earth, we refer to hydrocarbons as fuel, and we use the oxygen in our atmosphere to burn them. We call the air an "Oxidizer"

    On Titan, if there were any "natives", would they call oxygen "fuel" and their hydrocarbons "Hydrocarbonizers"?

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  2. They have hydrocarbons? by Pascoea · · Score: 5, Funny

    They have hydrocarbons? Looks like they need some Freedom!