<![CDATA[A Vector Map of the Unnamed Methane Sea on Titan - io9 Comments]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/io9.com.png <![CDATA[A Vector Map of the Unnamed Methane Sea on Titan - io9 Comments]]> http://io9.com Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:38:45 PDT Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:38:45 PDT http://io9.com/372741/a-vector-map-of-the-unnamed-methane-sea-on-titan <![CDATA[A Vector Map of the Unnamed Methane Sea on Titan]]> http://io9.com/372741/a-vector-map-of-the-unnamed-methane-sea-on-titan#c4916862 My vote, perhaps as an ode to Marvel Comics' Eternals, is Lake Eternal.

JetertoCano

]]> 8:372741:c4916862 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:38:45 PDT <![CDATA[A Vector Map of the Unnamed Methane Sea on Titan]]> http://io9.com/372741/a-vector-map-of-the-unnamed-methane-sea-on-titan#c5427264 Comment on A Vector Map of the Unnamed Methane Sea on Titan Since Carl was heavily involved in the initial speculation that Titan might have liquid methane on the surface, my proposal is it be called the "Sagan Sea".

AnnetteEurystheus

]]> 8:372741:c5427264 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:22:38 PDT <![CDATA[A Vector Map of the Unnamed Methane Sea on Titan]]> http://io9.com/372741/a-vector-map-of-the-unnamed-methane-sea-on-titan#c4907334 @92BuickLeSabre: Except that the acronym's TUMS. Indigestion and methane oceans on faraway planets don't really suit, methinks.

twreckx

]]> 8:372741:c4907334 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:24:59 PDT <![CDATA[A Vector Map of the Unnamed Methane Sea on Titan]]> http://io9.com/372741/a-vector-map-of-the-unnamed-methane-sea-on-titan#c4904616 I propose "Mare Eurynome". She was a primordial aquatic deity of the Greeks.
[en.wikipedia.org]
there's already an asteroid of that name but she deserves a sea as well.

Grey_Area

]]> 8:372741:c4904616 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:07:41 PDT <![CDATA[A Vector Map of the Unnamed Methane Sea on Titan]]> http://io9.com/372741/a-vector-map-of-the-unnamed-methane-sea-on-titan#c4903191 The shape looks to me like the head and neck of one of the aliens from the Alien movies. Call it the Ripley Sea.

Wesman

]]> 8:372741:c4903191 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:21:40 PDT <![CDATA[A Vector Map of the Unnamed Methane Sea on Titan]]> http://io9.com/372741/a-vector-map-of-the-unnamed-methane-sea-on-titan#c4901740 @Gopherit: Speaking of the shoreline, doesn't it look a bit like one of Slartibartfast's creations?

pirates.happen

]]> 8:372741:c4901740 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:38:05 PDT <![CDATA[A Vector Map of the Unnamed Methane Sea on Titan]]> http://io9.com/372741/a-vector-map-of-the-unnamed-methane-sea-on-titan#c4900456 note to fantasy authors...
please use stuff like this for your worlds...
it looks real, it makes sense from a geologic pov etc etc...

I have a huge rant about maps in fantasy books...but I'll spare you.

goldfarb

]]> 8:372741:c4900456 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:58:20 PDT <![CDATA[A Vector Map of the Unnamed Methane Sea on Titan]]> http://io9.com/372741/a-vector-map-of-the-unnamed-methane-sea-on-titan#c4900173 @Gopherit: I like that. It also has the added benefit of slyly referencing our own moon.

92BuickLeSabre

]]> 8:372741:c4900173 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:49:30 PDT <![CDATA[A Vector Map of the Unnamed Methane Sea on Titan]]> http://io9.com/372741/a-vector-map-of-the-unnamed-methane-sea-on-titan#c4898644 @tetracycloide: You make'em blue if you want to really convince people your radar flat/smooth areas are liquid. Grant money is at premium.

The dendritic patterns along the "shoreline" are really cool, though. Not too many places you can look in the solar system and confuse with Earth geography.

I vote for Lake Lunine. It seems fair to name the first methane "sea" found on Titan after the scientist whose dissertation was on Titan's ethane/methane oceans.

Gopherit

]]> 8:372741:c4898644 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:01:24 PDT <![CDATA[A Vector Map of the Unnamed Methane Sea on Titan]]> http://io9.com/372741/a-vector-map-of-the-unnamed-methane-sea-on-titan#c4898114 Klebert, I have it on good athority that is smells really bad :( I think it's the sulfer dioxide that bubbles up from the volcanic depths under the ice. Mare Methane, then.

Jeff-Minor

]]> 8:372741:c4898114 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 08:40:10 PDT <![CDATA[A Vector Map of the Unnamed Methane Sea on Titan]]> http://io9.com/372741/a-vector-map-of-the-unnamed-methane-sea-on-titan#c4898007 @92BuickLeSabre: That's what I came here to say. Seems like it could be a pretty awesome title of some story or other, "The Unnamed Methane Sea." I'd read that.

papercup mixmaster

]]> 8:372741:c4898007 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 08:36:13 PDT <![CDATA[A Vector Map of the Unnamed Methane Sea on Titan]]> http://io9.com/372741/a-vector-map-of-the-unnamed-methane-sea-on-titan#c4897494 i guess the only question left is why a lake on titan would be blue.

tetracycloide

]]> 8:372741:c4897494 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 08:14:22 PDT <![CDATA[A Vector Map of the Unnamed Methane Sea on Titan]]> http://io9.com/372741/a-vector-map-of-the-unnamed-methane-sea-on-titan#c4897311 Looking at it, it could easily be a map of any terrestrial mass...I guess it's just seeing an alien land, represented in familiar terms. There's something fascinating about seeing a map of a world you'll never see.

Miranda Kali

]]> 8:372741:c4897311 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 08:07:55 PDT <![CDATA[A Vector Map of the Unnamed Methane Sea on Titan]]> http://io9.com/372741/a-vector-map-of-the-unnamed-methane-sea-on-titan#c4897284 @Jeff-Minor:

Methane is odorless. It's the impurities that make it smelly. I don't know about ethane.
-Kle.

Klebert L. Hall

]]> 8:372741:c4897284 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 08:06:58 PDT <![CDATA[A Vector Map of the Unnamed Methane Sea on Titan]]> http://io9.com/372741/a-vector-map-of-the-unnamed-methane-sea-on-titan#c4896855 How about the Stinky Sea? Mare Maloderous.

Jeff-Minor

]]> 8:372741:c4896855 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 07:48:33 PDT <![CDATA[A Vector Map of the Unnamed Methane Sea on Titan]]> http://io9.com/372741/a-vector-map-of-the-unnamed-methane-sea-on-titan#c4896683 Hope I live long enough to get more info about the oceans that seem likely to be under the surfaces of some of Jupiter's and Saturn's moons.

Mathmos

]]> 8:372741:c4896683 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 07:40:23 PDT <![CDATA[A Vector Map of the Unnamed Methane Sea on Titan]]> http://io9.com/372741/a-vector-map-of-the-unnamed-methane-sea-on-titan#c4896649 @cabooyah: verry niice

Honestly, "Titan's Unnamed Methane Sea" is a pretty cool frickin name as it is.

92BuickLeSabre

]]> 8:372741:c4896649 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 07:38:53 PDT <![CDATA[A Vector Map of the Unnamed Methane Sea on Titan]]> http://io9.com/372741/a-vector-map-of-the-unnamed-methane-sea-on-titan#c4896599 @cabooyah: funny :)

metrophage

]]> 8:372741:c4896599 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 07:36:26 PDT <![CDATA[A Vector Map of the Unnamed Methane Sea on Titan]]> http://io9.com/372741/a-vector-map-of-the-unnamed-methane-sea-on-titan#c4896507 @cabooyah: LMAO

Thom

]]> 8:372741:c4896507 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 07:31:57 PDT <![CDATA[A Vector Map of the Unnamed Methane Sea on Titan]]> http://io9.com/372741/a-vector-map-of-the-unnamed-methane-sea-on-titan#c4896307 /lol

QuasarErazar

]]> 8:372741:c4896307 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 07:23:31 PDT <![CDATA[A Vector Map of the Unnamed Methane Sea on Titan]]> http://io9.com/372741/a-vector-map-of-the-unnamed-methane-sea-on-titan#c4896088 "What do you call the methane lake on Titan?"

"We call that one, Muad'Dib."

"Could I be known as Paul Muad'Dib?"

"Very well. You shall be known as Paul Muad'Dib."

cabooyah

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