Thursday, January 4, 2007

The News
Scientists' hypothesis of Saturn's big moon holds fluid
Denver Post 1-4-07
As scientists predicted but have had a hard time proving, the surface of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, appears to be dotted with an abundance of lakes of liquid methane. The lakes are more intriguing evidence of the active phenomena at play on the only moon in the solar system that has a dense atmosphere.

The Research
Read the research articles behind this story in Nature
The lakes of Titan
Planetary science: Titan's lost seas found