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Other than being interesting, what does this mean? Isn't it hypothesized that earth started out as a methane environment? Does this mean that they are thinking that Saturn might someday be a "living" planet? Is Saturn thought to be a younger planet than earth?


13 posted on 01/18/2005 11:03:51 AM PST by Bluegrass Conservative
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Not Saturn, its moon Titan.

Saturn is a gas giant, probably no solid surface until you get deep enough for pressure to make a solid out of gas.

Theres no way that thing is going to yield a terrestrial environment.

And Titan is almost as bad. Its just too far out from the sun to thaw out, and if it did somehow it is too small to hold a warmer atmosphere - its the size of Mercury.

Whats interesting, think, is that Titan is a sort of frozen specimen of the materials that went into making the solid planets before the sun and higher temperature chemistry changed them.


18 posted on 01/18/2005 11:12:46 AM PST by buwaya
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