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Eugene

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Tue Mar 18, 2014, 02:23 PM Mar 2014

'Waves' detected on Titan moon’s lakes

Source: BBC

18 March 2014 Last updated at 14:27 GMT

'Waves' detected on Titan moon’s lakes

By Paul Rincon
Science editor, BBC News website, The Woodlands, Texas

Scientists believe they have detected the first liquid waves on the surface of another world.

The signature of isolated ripples was observed in a sea called Punga Mare on the surface of Saturn's moon Titan.

However, these seas are filled not with water, but with hydrocarbons like methane and ethane.

These exist in their liquid state on Titan, where the surface temperature averages about -180C.

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Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-26622586

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'Waves' detected on Titan moon’s lakes (Original Post) Eugene Mar 2014 OP
Drat. I was hoping for some waterskiing. TrogL Mar 2014 #1
Don't despair...the ethane-skiing is supposed to be great this time of year! Moostache Mar 2014 #2

Moostache

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2. Don't despair...the ethane-skiing is supposed to be great this time of year!
Tue Mar 18, 2014, 09:57 PM
Mar 2014

I just think its awesome to be able to get these kind of details of other worlds...it really pains me to know that NASA is spinning its wheels while the Rethugs cut budgets annually for everything not making direct money for the congressional pay masters. We should be spending 5-10X the amount we do now on basic science research dammit!!!!!

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