Beach Party, Saturn! The Lakes of Titan

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Uploaded by on Aug 1, 2008

NASA has confirmed the presence of liquid lakes on Saturn's giant moon, Titan. The only moon with an atmosphere, Titan has lakes of ethane and methane, common hydrocarbons found on Earth.

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  • Great images and terrific, informative narrative! Fire up the BBQ!

  • No, and no. The liquid on the survace of Titan is liquid methane, not water. Let's stop messing up the only planet we got!

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  • This reminds me of Kurt Vonnegut's "Sirens of Titan". Such an awesome book...

  • wear a parka, that's liquid methane and the temperature is minus 145 degrees in the sun!

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