Saturn Moon Titan Sports Thick Icy Shell & Bizarre Interior

SPACE.com ^ | August 28, 2013 01:01pm ET | Charles Q. Choi,

[Little Pig]

Yes, they’re all hydrocarbons. My point was that while petroleum is a hydrocarbon (or a stew of them, really), not all hydrocarbons are considered petroleum. The etymology of “petroleum” is essentially “rock oil”, and it refers to crude oil and related substances like tar. Petroleum is a subset of hydrocarbons.

[Little Pig]

Nah, too cold and the atmospheric pressure is too high. Methane is barely volatile enough to evaporate there.

[from occupied ga]

To help solve this mystery, "what we need is a Titan orbiter..."

We don't "need" any such thing. It's bad snough my tax dollars are plundered to support lazy worthless crack-baby factories. But the knowledge of the composition of Titan's core is of no interest or value to anyone except a handful of academics at state universities who are already supported by the taxpayers. They "need" that information so badly let them pool their salaries to finance an orbiter

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks BenLurkin.

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[martin_fierro]

* snicker *

[Gefn]

I wanted to be an astronomer up until tenth grade. I love Geometry and aced that, as I did with Earth Science and Bio. It was Chemistry that was hard but Algebra was my Waterloo. That career choice became toast. I really don’t like math.

I grew up in a town with a university, when I was a kid I belonged to their amateur astronomers club. Once a month they opened their telescope up to grammar and junior high school kids to look at the heavens with. I was such a happy kid on those nights.

[Conspiracy Guy]

I know that. But that’s not funny.

[fieldmarshaldj]

"Saturn Moon Titan Sports Thick Icy Shell & Bizarre Interior"

Much like the Empress Moochelle.

[Don@VB]

Perhaps a Tootsie Roll in the center?

[jmcenanly]

This sounds like a good follow on for Deep Space Industries Firefly™ probes. They are smaller than a NASA probe would be, and would use laser, rather than radio communication, decreasing weight, power requirements, and reliance on NASA’s Deep space Network.

[left that other site]

“But we could be wrong there”.....

Brilliant scientific analysis! LOL

[Ray76]

Somebody had to say it, the joke was tee-d up and waiting.

[wastedyears]

Let’s send Al Gore. That’s enough for a supernova.