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The First Global Geologic Map of Titan Completed
The first map showing the global geology of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, has been completed and fully reveals a dynamic world of dunes, lakes, plains, craters and other terrains.
Titan is the only planetary body in our solar system other than Earth known to have stable liquid on its surface. But instead of water raining down from clouds and filling lakes and seas as on Earth, on Titan what rains down is methane and ethane – hydrocarbons that we think of as gases but that behave as liquids in Titan’s frigid climate.
“Titan has an active methane-based hydrologic cycle that has shaped a complex geologic landscape, making its surface one of most geologically diverse in the solar system,” said Rosaly Lopes, a planetary geologist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and lead author of new research used to develop the map. read more
Did I hear someone say Methane?
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Hydrocarbons? Methane? So do they have global climate change on Titan too?
Uninhabitable for human life but close enough to begin a large colony of democrats.
following the “logic of Thunderdome” to have methane one must have pigs?
That will come in handy in case my GPS unit goes down on my next visit there.
Did they find any sirens on Titan?
“… Neptune, Titan, stars can frighten …”
Maybe if we FORBID ragheads and demonrats from emigrating to Titan …
izlamo delenda est …
Taminator, you’ve been reading too much Kurt Vonnegut.
Our solar systems gas station.
Too bad we will never see it in our lifetime but at some point Titan will turn into the intergalactic way-station for ships mining the Khyber belt and others leaving our solar system.
Fascinating stuff to contemplate if we survive long enough to do those things as a species!
Geoff, be careful or you may get chronosynclastically infundibulated…….
So in other words, it rains San Fransisco on Titan. 😳
Either that or find myself out of space and time traveling back and forth to the planet Tralfamador like Billy Pilgrim. I love Kilgore Trout, Kurt Vonnegut’s altar ego.
“Hummocky”?
NASA’s kiddies needs a new pair of shoes,,,
don’t light a match!
Well, as Macbeth of the Jungle said when he met his mate, “Me Thane, you Jane”.
😉
Here’s what we do.
Mine Mars for the rock to build habitats. Mars is too small to terraform and has no protective magnetic field. Use that rock to fuse into giant habitats
Park the habitats all over and build communities of these floating cities and then we can sell exotic hydrocarbons back to earth for trillions
Venus is the target in our lifetimes (including our sons and daughters). Float the spacecraft, due to high density atmosphere, permanent floating stations WITH CHEMICAL REACTIONS/MANUFACTURE W/ATMOSPHERE. Let me hear you say, “OK Boomer”.
MARS IS A PIPE DREAM UNTIL kUBRICK’S GHOST CAN CONVINCE NASA TO. DESIGN A HUMAN CENTRIFUGE BEFORE HEADING OUT.