Ontario Lacus - Titan's Newly Discovered Lake
Wednesday, July 30, 2008 - 21:35
in Astronomy & Space
Titan, which is one-and-a-half times the size of Earth's moon and bigger than either Mercury or Pluto, is one of the most fascinating bodies in the solar system when it comes to exploring environments that may give rise to life. Scientists have confirmed that it has just gotten more interesting - it has a surface liquid lake in the south polar region of Saturn's moon, Titan, is truly wet. The lake is about 235 kilometers, or 150 miles, long. The visual and infrared mapping spectrometer, or VIMS, on NASA's Cassini orbiter, identifies the chemical composition of objects by the way matter reflects light. Read More...
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