Needs a picture



Lake Superior figures:

LENGTH: 350 miles / 563 km.
BREADTH: 160 miles / 257 km.
WATER SURFACE AREA: 31,700 sq. miles / 82,100 sq. km.

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Now, I know everyone will scoff at this, but you have to wonder at the chances of little fishies swimming in that sea.

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I know we don't have the complete image in yet, but would posters here agree this new lake encompasses approximately the same area on Titan as the Meditteranean covers on earth?

It doesn't seem likely that there would be complex, multicellular life in freezing lakes of liquid hydrocarbons. However, there have been numerous occasions on this planet alone in which we've had to reexamine our preconceived notions regarding what is and what is not suitable for life.

It would be cool to see whether or not there is any geothermal activity going on beneath those liquid bodies.

Does anyone know when newer pictures of the
straight trench and scorchmark on Dione might
be coming in? One is eager for more detail!

Pretty much everything on this planet is suitable for life, the extremes in which it is found are beyond imagination. Of course, that says nothing about Titan, which is totally different.

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The only places on this planet that don't have life are places that don't have water (which are few and far between). Everywhere we've looked where there's water, there's life in some form or another.

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Strange, how such a simple substance can mean so much .

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Water is a pretty a useful little molecule. It's a great facilitator for chemical reactions.

Needs another picture. The Lake Superior-sized possible-sea is apparently next to a larger one.



Exploring the Wetlands of Titan

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This cropped image of Pan sweeping majestically through the Encke gap and tiny Daphnis was taken by the Cassini spaceprobe on March 24, 2007
The image was taken using the CL1 and CL2 filters.

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

http://www.androphile.org/preview/Li...nd_Daphnis.htm

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This image of Titan was taken by the Cassini spaceprobe on March 27, 2007, when it was approximately 267,288 kilometres away.

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Credit NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

The image was taken using the CL1 and CB3 filters.


This image of Titan was taken by the Cassini spaceprobe on March 27, 2007, when it was approximately 253,968 kilometres away.

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Credit NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

The image was taken using the CL1 and CB3 filters.

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This (cropped, 49kb, 1024 x 768) image of Titan was taken by the Cassini spaceprobe on March 26, 2007, when it was approximately 181,433 kilometres away.
The image was taken using the CB3 and IRP0 filters.

Credit NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

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amazing pics, have those lakes been named yet ?

No, the only named lake-like feature, Ontario Lacus, is located near the south pole.

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It takes a long time for names of planetary surface features to become official: the discovering team has to propose them, and then their proposal has to be approved. Look how long it took "Eris" to get a real name.

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Naming of Eris was complicated by the definition of planet issue.

Based on Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature, many surface features have been named on the same year they're found.

Naming of a Solar System body requires that its orbit is known well enough. In the case of new satellites it often takes a couple of years. That wasn't true always; for example, the eight irregular moons of Jupiter discovered before the Voyager flybys were named as late as in 1975. Himalia, the first of them, was discovered 70 years earlier. They didn't carry names probably because astronomers used to call all Jupiter's moons only by their numbers (like "Jupiter I" in the case of Io).

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This is a natural colour view of Dione's south pole taken by the Cassini spacecraft on April 8, 2007.

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Images taken using red, green and blue spectral filters were combined to create the natural colour view. The images were taken with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera at a distance of approximately 268,000 kilometres from Dione and at a Sun-Dione-spacecraft angle of 92 degrees.
Image scale is 2 kilometres per pixel.


This image of Dione was taken by the Cassini space probe on April 24, 2007, when it was approximately 107,675 kilometres away.

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The image was taken using the CL1 and IR3 filters.

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