Re: Sailing the seas of Titan


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Posted by Andy on December 21, 2009 at 22:32:10 user Andy.

In Reply to: Re: Sailing the seas of Titan posted by hugo on December 21, 2009 at 20:59:25:

It's about minus 180 celsius on Titan, so it's pretty frigid - but luckily all methane and ethane icebergs would sink (they're denser than the liquid phase) so there's no risk of a collision. :-)

That said, I've been following Cassini/Huygens from the get-go, and this iconic image of sunlight reflected off an alien lake is pretty mind-blowing. You might like to know that radar evidence suggests there's next-to-no wave action on the Titanian lakes, and no tides.

Andy



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