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Cassini spies clouds on Titan

namloc1980 · 2014-09-26 20:15:01

Amazing sequence from the Cassini spacecraft in orbit around Saturn. During a recent flyby of the moon Titan it imaged methane clouds in the sky. The dark areas are lakes of liquid methane. The largest methane lake on Titan, Kraken Mare, is bigger than Earth's Caspian sea!

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Amazing sequence from the Cassini spacecraft in orbit around Saturn. During a recent flyby of the moon Titan it imaged methane clouds in the sky. The dark areas are lakes of liquid methane. The largest methane lake on Titan, Kraken Mare, is bigger than Earth's Caspian sea!

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#2 28-09-2014 9:10am
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There was once talk of a "floating rover" that would land in one of those lakes.

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Cassini Watches Mysterious Feature Evolve in Titan Sea

NASA's Cassini spacecraft is monitoring the evolution of a mysterious feature in a large hydrocarbon sea on Saturn's moon Titan. The feature covers an area of about 100 square miles (260 square kilometers) in Ligeia Mare, one of the largest seas on Titan. It has now been observed twice by Cassini's radar experiment, but its appearance changed between the two apparitions.

Its a big whale.

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