Spaaaace

[eponymous_rose]

I love this picture. It's an image taken back in 2005 by the Huygens probe as it landed on Titan, Jupiter's largest moon. Look at that shoreline! So cool. The lakes are mostly methane, with some unknown sort of hydrocarbon mixed in. Methane rain falls on the lakes - Titan is the only moon with a dense atmosphere. (Lab simulations in 2010, by the way, have shown that the composition of Titan's lakes could support non-water-based life. Those lab experiments mark the first time nucleotide bases and amino acids were formed without water.) There are also possibly cryovolcanoes on the surface - that is, volcanoes with ice instead of lava. How cool is that?

Comments

[kerravonsen]

Definitely cool. In more than one way. (grin)

[st_aurafina]

*hearts the alien beach*