Titan's hydrocarbon lakes,
courtesy NASA:
Saturn’s moon Titan is covered in several times more hydrocarbons that the Earth, according to scientists observing the data sent back from the space probe Cassini.
Whatever lessons man might learn exploring deepest Siberia would be of help on the galaxy’s second-biggest known moon, since minus 180 degrees Ceslsius is room temperature on Titan.
The moon’s many seas of hydrocarbons were reported in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, which cited the findings of a Cassini radar team from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel Maryland.
”The hydrocarbons rain from the sky, collecting in vast deposits that form lakes and dunes,” Cassini radar team leader, Ralph Lorenz, was reported saying.
"Titan is just covered in carbon-bearing material — it's a giant factory of organic chemicals," he added.
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