Giant Tropical Lake Found On Saturn Moon Titan

Space.com via Yahoo News ^ | 13 June 2012 | Charles Q. Choi

[edpc]

An oasis of liquid methane has unexpectedly been discovered amid the tropical dunes of Saturn's moon Titan, researchers say.

This lake in the otherwise dry tropics of Titan hints that subterranean channels of liquid methane might feed it from below, scientists added.

Titan has clouds, rain and lakes, like Earth, but these are composed of methane rather than water. However, methane lakes were seen only at Titan's poles until now — its tropics around the equator were apparently home to dune fields instead.

[edpc]

The methane rain falls mainly on the plain?

[patton]

“NO SMOKING”, or we go up together - like a Pinto...

[cripplecreek]

Tropical is a relative term.

[Empireoftheatom48]

Would a comet strike light the whole place up, we would need to keep it far a way from Uranus!

[SkyDancer]

Looks like some paddle boat out there ....

[MasterGunner01]

Just in case anyone is considering a dip in the liquid methane lake, the temperature is -182.5 degrees C or -296.5 degrees F. The temperature isn’t exactly balmy.

[Drew68]

Tropical is a relative term.

Indeed. Titan is a balmy -290 F. Not exactly Florida in the summer.

[txhurl]

has unexpectedly been discovered

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They have the same lame-ass reporters on Titan simultaneously?

[shibumi]

"Giant Tropical Lake Found On Saturn Moon Titan"

Looks like Kurt Vonnegut was right all along!

(Cover Image from "The Sirens of Titan" Pub. 1959)

[Chgogal]

What are the waterfront lots going for? ; )

[BallyBill]

Jeremy Wade is making reservations.

[AU72]

Bookmark for mining in a couple of thousand years.

[cripplecreek]

We had a lot of fun on Venus

We always have a ball on Mars...

[Sacajaweau]

Gotta clean my screen now....

[CrazyIvan]

I think you’ve got it!

[molson209]

Methane is a relatively potent greenhouse gas ,so a lake of it is not causing global warning there ,maybe it only works on earth LOL

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks edpc. Extremophiles / panspermia / ET life ping.

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[SunkenCiv]

Thanks edpc.

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[Mr. K]

Strike a match and it would probably light-up like uranus

[Arlis]

Uh, sorry.....no flame possible on Titan without oxygen.....no oxygen, no explosion.....