Cassini Examines Hydrocarbon Ocean on Titan! NASAs Cassini mission continues its adventures in extraterrestrial oceanography with new findings about the hydrocarbon seas on Saturns moon Titan. During a flyby in August, the spacecraft sounded the depths near the mouth of a flooded river valley and observed new, bright features in the seas that might be related to the mysterious feature that researchers dubbed the magic island. The findings are being presented this week at the Division for Planetary Sciences Meeting of the American Astronomical Society held in Tucson, Arizona. To the delight of Cassini scientists, two new bright features appeared in Titans largest sea, Kraken Mare, during the August 21 flyby. In contrast to a previously reported bright, mystery feature in another of Titans large seas, Ligeia Mare, the new features in Kraken Mare were observed in both radar data and images from Cassinis Visible and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS). Having observations at two different wavelengths provides researchers with important clues to the nature of these enigmatic objects...Read more at: spaceref/saturn/cassini-examines-hydrocarbon-ocean-on-titan.html
Posted on: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 23:51:00 +0000
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