Possible Cryovolcano Discovered on Titan 116
Rei writes "NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is reporting that the Cassini spacecraft has observed what appears to be a cryovolcano on Saturn's moon Titan. Given the absense of a global methane sea on Titan, the snail-shaped structure with what appears to be a caldera on top could explain how Titan's methane stays replenished. It could further explain the dry drainage channels discovered by the Huygens lander as being formed by heavy methane rainfall after eruptions."
Great article (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Great article (Score:4, Funny)
Caldera? (Score:5, Funny)
Check for bad sci-fi (Score:4, Funny)
Caldera (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Titan Climatology (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Great article (Score:1, Funny)
Raining methane? (Score:2, Funny)
"The forecast today is for periods of clear nitrogen, followed by an earthquake, the raining methane for the rest of the afternoon. Film at eleven."
Correction... (Score:0, Funny)
Paris Hilton says (Score:1, Funny)
New material for George Lucas... (Score:2, Funny)
That brings new meaning (Score:5, Funny)
The solar system is fouled up, isn't it? (Score:5, Funny)
Meanwhile, the idiots on these remote asteroids have volcanos and seas full of the stuff and are doing absolutely nothing to exploit it.
Rummy really needs to get out there with some ex-military contractors and get started on the pipeline. Looks like there's not too much risk of anyone firing RPGs at the construction force, either.
What a nerd. (Score:4, Funny)
A Cryovolcano? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Caldera? (Score:3, Funny)
Say it isn't SCO!
Wonder Twin powers activate! (Score:3, Funny)
caldera (Score:3, Funny)
Given the absense of a global methane sea on Titan, the snail-shaped structure with what appears to be a caldera on top could explain how Titan's methane stays replenished.
Having not known that 'caldera' was anything other than sco's former name, I of course looked it up in wikipedia:
A caldera is a volcanic feature formed by the collapse of a volcano into itself.
It seems like sco should have stayed with this name, it's much more apropos.
Re:Great article (Score:3, Funny)
Oh great, just what we need, a depressed angsty moon.
Gee there must be... (Score:2, Funny)
Or
That's not where all our oil and gas comes from on this planet either. Besides that, it would be one weird damn dinosaur that would crawl into a giant rock to die, requiring explosives to extract its liquid remains.