Spacecraft spots lakes on Titan
Los Angeles TimesPosted: July 31st, 2006 by Thomas L. Knapp
“A cluster of large hydrocarbon lakes has been spotted on Titan, Saturn’s planet-size moon, scientists reported this week. The lakes near Titan’s north pole were spied during a Cassini spacecraft flyby last weekend within 590 miles of the moon. Researchers counted about a dozen lakes six to 62 miles wide. Some lakes, which appeared as dark patches in radar images, were connected by channels; others had tributaries flowing into them. Several were dried up. The ones that weren’t probably contained a liquid mix of methane and ethane.” (07/31/06)
