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To: Fred Nerks

Titan not only lacks oceans, but also water.


8 posted on 06/13/2007 6:35:59 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Time heals all wounds, particularly when they're not yours. Profile updated June 8, 2007.)
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To: SunkenCiv

you know how it goes...whilst looking for ‘water on Titan’ I found this - and don’t know what to make of it.

http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/object/index.cfm?fobjectid=12759

Benzene is a common molecule on Earth (it’s a component of car fuel) but apparently not so much in the other planets. Only in certain areas of Jupiter’s atmosphere had it been detected before. ISO’s. spectrometers see it now also in Saturn, along with other three hydrocarbons also detected for the first time in this planet (methyl, propyne and diacetylene).

“it’s a component of car fuel.”

Just couldn’t bring themselves to write the word “oil”?


9 posted on 06/13/2007 7:15:24 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (FAIR DINKUM!)
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