Cassini Radar Shows Evidence of Seas on Saturn's Moon Titan

Animation: Cassini Radar Shows Evidence of Seas on Saturn's Moon Titan 03.14.07

This animation, based on radar images from NASA's Cassini spacecrfaft, shows what scientists believe to be lakes and seas, likely filled with liquid methane or ethane, in the high northern latitudes of Saturn's moon Titan.

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[LuisCarcamoCarcamo]

@gingercid You would have a hard time trying to blow it up without an oxidizer

[jenpol145]

for information those lakes aren't water seas : on titan the temperature is so cold that water is harder than rock / stone

those are lakes of methane

[KarbineKyle]

Cool! Titan is a VERY strange world. It's similar to Earth, yet it's SO cold! The methane & ethane lakes are quite fascinating. If there was enough oxygen in the atmosphere, a spark could ignite the whole planet. The cryovolcanism is really interesting too. It even rains methane, yet the large drops fall as slow as snow. The grooves & dunes have been slowly eroded by wind, liquid methane & ammonia. Water-ice freezes as hard as rock. Perhaps it has vast liquid caverns? It must be beautiful there.

[gingercid]

I wonder what would happen if u lit a lighter on Titan??? Since it's rivers of liquid methane

[gingercid]

I wonder if u could blow up titan if u lit a lighter there???????????????

[gingercid]

It's not water methane it's just liquid methane

[hazzaza1]

@jenpol145 But on titan massive areas are a solution of water + ammonia which drastically reduces the the freezing temperature. This is what volcanos on titan spout as well

[tylerguy1594]

its methane water

[monkeyboy4746]

A water-ice ship sailing on a methane lake, now that would be something, or would water-ice be too heavy or brittle at those temps? What would you use for a sail, maybe some of the stuff they used to suspend the detectors on the spitzer space telescope, it would have to be flexible at low temps. Maybe ditch the sail idea and use a prop, but what power source? A nuclear reactor powering a Stirling engine maybe? Stuff for the scifi writers I guess. How would it be to sail into the sunset on Titan?

[ZEUS121407]

maybe there is fish give me some power bait