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New images of Titan reveal the extent of methane lakes.

It’s been raining liquid methane on Titan. That’s according to an analysis of just-released images revealing a possible new lake in the south polar region of Saturn’s largest moon.

Measuring about 3,200 miles (5,150 kilometers) across, Titan is larger than the planet Mercury and about 40 percent the diameter of Earth. It is the only moon in the solar system with a dense, planet-like atmosphere (10 times denser than Earth’s).

The possible new lake showed up in images taken in 2005 by the Cassini spacecraft’s Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS). Cassini’s photos taken in 2004 of that same region didn’t show such a dark spot.

Scientists think the most plausible explanation for the sudden appearance is a lake filled by recent rainfall. [...]

Source: Space.com – click here for full article

 

 

The Solar System’s birth was far from peaceful. Witness the spectacular explosion known as the “Big Bang” which happened billions of years before. Although the solar system looks peaceful its birth was anything but peaceful.

Here is a short video about the birth of the solar system.