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more about #titan strideo: A boat in a liquid methane sea? All they need to do is bring some oxygen and they'll have all the fuel they'll need! more » joetato: Just don't try Drejing the lakes! Sorry, I couldn't resist. ;-) (See Titan A.E. for more info) more » Meirelle: It still amazes me that there's lakes on Titan. And it rains there. IT RAINS. As my niece would say, "That just blows mine head off." more » Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: How do you say "Yaaarrrr" in Titanian? Srsly, this is a neat idea. more » Bill-Lee: Sounds like fun, fun, fun in the sun, sun, sun. But it doesn't sound like the kind of place to lie shipwrecked and comatose, drinking fresh mango juic... more » einsteinsquandry: Come sail away, come sail away, come sail away with meeeeee! more » EdificeComplex: As long as they don't name it after Hans Moravec. more » Ghost_in_the_Machine: This has already been covered. [io9.com] [io9.com] more » Roklimber: NASA reveals first-ever photo of liquid on another world [edition.cnn.com] 'Boat' could explore Saturn moon [news.bbc.co.uk] #tips #spaceporn #titan... more » Post-Nuked: Ah, nothing spurs interplanetary tourism like fart lakes. more » Blue_Thark: No doubt the conflict between the "Youpers" and "Trolls" of Titan's Great Lakes region is as fierce and milennias-old as ours. more » J_Frank_Parnell: It's raining hydrocarbons! Aaayeee! more » burlybax: Methane Clouds.. So cartoons had it right after all more » comics0026: Uh, but it still looks like alot of the planet hasn't been mapped yet. How do we know there isn't some great big sea hiding in the Southern Hemisphere... more » TotalFanGirl: All methane mysteries come down to one thing...cow farts. more » ThisDudeRufus: Spacekatchewan? more » Bootknife-Jackson: I am so excited about this mission! This and Europa! Oh man! I might need new space pants here, seriously! The only thing that would be cooler is a ma... more » Dr Emilio Lizardo: So when the native Titanians (Titanites?) see it, will the UFO be dismissed as a weather balloon? #saturn more » Alasdair5000: A nuclear powered hot air balloon and a robotic boat. On another planet. That's AWESOME:) #saturn more » GreyHammer: a balloon makes sense but am i the only one who finds it amusing that a rocket will deliver a device to a far off moon that was developed in the 1800s... more » -
#spaceseas
Sail Titan's Friendly Sea
Scientists are planning a cruise that could be described as "out of this world," despite being more business than pleasure. The secret? It'll take place on Titan, one of Saturn's moons. More » -
#exoclimate
The Mystery of Titan's Methane Lakes - Solved?
Saturn's atmosphere-shrouded moon Titan is dotted with methane lakes, giving it a geography like Saskatchewan or the Great Lakes region in the US. But why are all the lakes grouped in the northern hemisphere of the moon? More » -
#titan
Titan's Drone Boat Could Be Joined By a Nuclear Hot-Air Balloon
It's been reported that a planned mission to Titan will use a robotic boat to explore the liquid-methane seas. But the project will also have eyes in the sky: a hot-air balloon will circumnavigate Titan and observe its multiform topography. More » -
#space
A Nuclear-Powered Boat Could Sail The Great Lakes Of Titan
A robot ship could soon be sailing across the massive bodies of liquid that dot the arctic region of Titan, Saturn's moon. Titan has huge lakes, but they're made up of ethane, methane and propane. More » -
#geophysicalporn
Methane Cloudburst on Titan
These images of clouds high in Titan's atmosphere, published today in Nature, are strong evidence for rainstorms of methane on the moon, creating roaring rivers across Titan's surface. More » -
#madcartography
The Plains of Titan Will Be Named After a Planet from "Dune"
Saturn's Moon Titan is full of dark, icy sands, so it makes sense that its dune-filled plains should be named after a planet from the Dune series.The Chusuk plain is the dark region next to the letter C. More » -
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#moonporn
Lovely, Pristine Beaches off the Shores of Titan's Great Methane Lake
Here you can see the most recent satellite photo of Ontariou Lacus, or Lake Ontario, located next to a lovely beach on Titan. It's the first image that confirms without a doubt that Saturn's moon Titan contains lakes filled with liquid. Due to the angle of the camera, the image is wedge-shaped, but you can still quite clearly see that the right edge of the lake is a beach, lapped by gentle waves of methane. See below for more methane action. More » -
#spaceporn
A Vector Map of the Unnamed Methane Sea on Titan
Peter Minton is a California teacher who loves to make vector maps in his spare time. His favorite places to map are islands and coastlines, and so when the Cassini-Huygens probe sent back images from Saturn's moon Titan he was happy to discover the geographical features he loves most. There, on the pole of Titan, was a sea full of islands. An unnamed methane sea, but still mappable using vectoring software. This is the map he created, with longitude and latitude lines. More » -
#spaceporn
NASA's Probe Will Buzz Titan Landing Site
NASA may have failed to prove there's an underground ocean on Saturn's moon Enceladus, but now scientists claim they've found outstanding new evidence that there may be a vast ocean under the surface of Saturn's largest moon, Titan. In this newly released image, Titan peeks out from behind Saturn while another moon, Tethys, streaks past the planet's shadowy rings. Click through for a gorgeous Titan gallery. More » -
#spaceporn
Titan Rises Behind Saturn's Rings
Haze-covered Titan, a moon of Saturn with a dense, cloudy atmosphere, was mapped extensively by the recent Cassini-Huygens space probe. The probe sent back beautiful space vistas like this one, whereTitan is the glowing globe behind Saturn's rings, and tiny moon Epimetheus is the small body you see floating above it. The space probe also gave up-close view of the surface of this moon, perhaps most famous for being the place where the aliens of 2001 have left a second monolith. What you may not have known is that the surface of Titan is ridged with sand dunes. Want to see them? More »
