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June 30, 2005
Possible lake on Saturn's moon Titan
WASHINGTON (Reuters)Could Saturn's moon Titan be a land of lakes?
A new image captured by the Cassini spacecraft indicates that it just might -- though the possible lake in question could be filled with liquid methane rather than water, NASA said on Tuesday.
The putative lake appears in a Cassini image of Titan's south polar region, a well-defined but irregularly shaped dark spot with smooth, shore-like boundaries unlike anything previously seen on this Saturn satellite.
It is about 145 miles by 45 miles (234 km by 73 km), about the size of Lake Ontario on the U.S.-Canadian border, Cassini scientists said in a statement.
Now that's just cool! Read it all here.
Posted by Daffodil at June 30, 2005 9:43 AM
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