Posted on 04/30/2026 12:59:43 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: Have you ever thought about surfing on an alien world? We can now expand the search for the perfect wave from Earth to the rest of the Solar System, and beyond. Scientists have developed a new model for simulating waves on other planets. Titan is one of the 274 confirmed moons of Saturn to date, and the only object in the solar system (besides Earth) known to have liquid lakes and seas on its surface. The featured video shows a simulation of waves on Earth (right) and on Titan (left), under the same conditions (the scale marker is in meters). A light breeze would create taller, slower-moving waves on Titan than on Earth, because the lakes there are filled with light liquid hydrocarbons, and because of Titan's low gravity and higher atmospheric pressure. In a couple of years, NASA expects to launch the Dragonfly mission, which will travel for 6 years and send a rotorcraft to explore Titan and study its microbial habitability.
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Todays image is a short video at the source link.
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Todays image is a short video at the source link.
E.T. Don’t Surf!!!
Surf’s up!
Just say it, fossil fuels!
Love the smell of light hydrocarbons in the morning...
When I was a kid it would have been possible to memorize all the names of the moons of the planets (but I think the smaller moons of Jupiter may not have been given names yet). Jupiter had 12 known moons and Saturn 9. I’d hate to take an astronomy course now if you had to memorize all the names of all the moons of the planets of the solar system (even without the moons of the “dwarf planets”).
Those are real waves??
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