Sentences with phrase «hydrocarbon lakes on»

The probe also detailed the chemical composition of the hydrocarbon lakes on Saturn's biggest moon, Titan.

For example, the hydrocarbon lakes on Titan could host a different form of life.

The observatory's long history is punctuated with discoveries, from the detection of millisecond pulsars — neutron stars that rotate several hundred times a second — to the presence of hydrocarbon lakes on Saturn's moon Titan.

Not exact matches

The array of claims around Alberta's crude is wide and varied: on the one hand, anti-Keystone groups contend that dilbit — i.e. diluted bitumen, thick oilsand crude mixed with light hydrocarbons that will allow it to flow through a pipeline — is more corrosive than other types of oil and sinks in water rather than floating, which makes it harder to clean rivers and lakes after a spill.

«The rocks are water ice and the lakes are methane and light hydrocarbons, yet we see processes very similar to what we see on Earth.»

Methane rain should fall on the lakes but it is vastly more volatile than ethane and propane, so it probably evaporates much faster from lakes, leaving the heavier hydrocarbons behind.

The hydrocarbon lakes are part of a landscape that exhibits both the general principles of geology and the different ways they work on other worlds.

Almost all of the hydrocarbon seas and lakes on the surface of Saturn's moon Titan cluster around the north pole, as can be seen in this mosaic from NASA's Cassini mission.

«Until Cassini arrived at Saturn, we didn't know about the hydrocarbon lakes of Titan, the active drama of Enceladus» jets, and the intricate patterns at Saturn's poles,» Linda Spiller, the Cassini project scientist at NASA Jet's Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., said in a statement on Dec. 23.

The methane in Titan's atmosphere has a similar cycle to water on Earth; it evaporates into the atmosphere from the large lakes, condenses as clouds and falls as methane rain on Titan's hydrocarbon - rich landscape, creating rivers and sculpting valleys.

Between the evidence of past flowing water on Mars, Titan's hydrocarbon lakes, Europa's underground ocean, and Enceladus, it seems increasingly probable we'll find life somewhere else in the solar system.