Cassini Finds Liquid Lake on Titan
Credit: NASA JPL/SPACE SCIENCE INSTITUTE/UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has found evidence that a body of hydrocarbon on Saturn’s moon Titan is liquid, based on its reflectivity in infrared wavelengths. “Ontario Lacus” is larger than its namesake, Lake Ontario in North America, and absorbs 99.9% of the light that hits it at the 5-micron...
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