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  • Titan Has More Oil Than Earth

    02/13/2008 4:02:35 PM PST · by Names Ash Housewares · 67 replies · 441+ views
    space.com ^ | Today | Space.com Staff
    Saturn's smoggy moon Titan has hundreds of times more natural gas and other liquid hydrocarbons than all the known oil and natural gas reserves on Earth, scientists said today. The hydrocarbons rain from the sky on the miserable moon, collecting in vast deposits that form lakes and dunes. This much was known. But now the stuff has been quantified using observations from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. "Titan is just covered in carbon-bearing material — it's a giant factory of organic chemicals," said Ralph Lorenz, a Cassini radar team member from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. "This vast carbon inventory...
  • Titan Has More Oil Than Earth

    02/14/2008 9:35:37 AM PST · by Magnum44 · 25 replies · 214+ views
    Space.com ^ | 13 February 2008 | Staff
    Saturn's smoggy moon Titan has hundreds of times more natural gas and other liquid hydrocarbons than all the known oil and natural gas reserves on Earth, scientists said today....
  • Titan Has More Oil Than Earth

    02/16/2008 8:21:16 AM PST · by jmcenanly · 29 replies · 717+ views
    Space.com ^ | 13 February 2008 | Space.com Staff
    Saturn's smoggy moon Titan has hundreds of times more natural gas and other liquid hydrocarbons than all the known oil and natural gas reserves on Earth, scientists said today. The hydrocarbons rain from the sky on the miserable moon, collecting in vast deposits that form lakes and dunes. This much was known. But now the stuff has been quantified using observations from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. "Titan is just covered in carbon-bearing material — it's a giant factory of organic chemicals," said Ralph Lorenz, a Cassini radar team member from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. "This vast carbon inventory...