Saturday, May 26, 2018

Methane World



Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day shows an ice-cold world that is always a hot topic of debate. Saturn's major moon Titan, shrouded in a dense atmosphere, sprinkled with liquid (I did not say water!) rain and covered with liquid (again, not water!) oceans. Is there life there? To use that (in)famous phrase found in so much science fiction "...as we know it?"

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