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No DUplicitous DUpe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-14-07 02:18 PM
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Cassini Reveals “Seas” of Methane and Ethane on Titan
Planetary News: Titan (2007)
http://www.planetary.org/news/2007/0314_Cassini_Reveals_Seas_of_Methane_and.html
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In the far northern reaches of Titan, hundreds of kilometers beneath the thick haze that envelopes the Saturnian moon, a landlocked sea splashes against its lonely shores. Composed not of water but of a mixture of ethane and methane, this alien sea in other ways looks very much like its counterparts on Earth: rivers nearby plow their way through flood plains before pouring into the sea’s great expanse; coastal islands rise above the liquid surface, forming straits and channels.
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Wow, amazing! (see link for cool photo!)
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Joanne98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-14-07 02:24 PM
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1. Cool!
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No DUplicitous DUpe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-14-07 02:25 PM
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2. I thought so. Found it on the front page of Google news.
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Joanne98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-14-07 02:47 PM
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3. I love all the space pictures!
:loveya:
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JHB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-14-07 02:49 PM
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4. Surf Titan!
http://us.st11.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/planetarysociety_1940_27033
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slackmaster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-14-07 02:49 PM
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5. Wow, think of the amount of gasoline you could make from that lake
I'm just sayin'...
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No DUplicitous DUpe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-14-07 03:03 PM
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7. Good point, I didn't think of that. Move to Saturn's moon for free gas.
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roamer65 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-14-07 02:53 PM
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6. Careful. If Dick Cheney reads this he may decide to attack.
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