Lakes in Titan's Northern Polar Region


	Lakes in Titan's Northern Polar Region

Bluephoenix4

10-11-2007 8:53 PM

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astronomy, cassini, nasa, saturn, moon, titan, solar system

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NASA's Cassini spacecraft has now mapped out 60 percent of Titan's north pole region, and it's looking downright aquatic. At least 14% of the region revealed by Cassini is covered in what look like liquid hydrocarbon lakes.</blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/2007-1011titan.jpg" href="http://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/2007-1011titan.jpg" style="font-size: 11px;">www.universetoday.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/2007-1011titan.jpg"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.universetoday.com/img/78051158-A137-44FC-AB51-FFB166F70E9B" alt="http://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/2007-1011titan.jpg" /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.universetoday.com/2007/10/11/lakes-in-titans-northern-polar-region/" href="http://www.universetoday.com/2007/10/11/lakes-in-titans-northern-polar-region/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.universetoday.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.universetoday.com/2007/10/11/lakes-in-titans-northern-polar-region/">The new images were mapped out by Cassini's radar instruments, which can detect the smoothness of the surface of Titan. Extremely smooth sections are thought to be a liquid, while the bumpier regions are solid ground. The largest sea discovered so far has a surface area of 100,000 square kilometres (40,000 square miles), bigger than Lake Superior here on Earth.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/3A7B5F8C-A6E2-48F1-9317-322A92043415/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>