Sentences with phrase «liquid methane rain»
Titan's liquid methane rain appears to play a major role in shaping its icy surface, and the downpours are much more common than researchers expected.
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The organic - rich environment, coupled with liquid methane rain, wowed astrobiologists, while the exotic surface fascinated geologists.
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Its thick, opaque orange atmosphere rains liquid methane, which flows into lakes on the surface.
Imagine a world where the average daytime temperature is -179 °C, and torrential rains of liquid methane fall from the skies, forming vast but shallow pools that cover an area larger than the Great Lakes.
Research in the past several months has further fueled the excitement, yielding new hints of liquid water on Enceladus and revealing ethane lakes and methane rain on Titan.
Methane on Titan plays the role of water on Earth, complete with liquid surface reservoirs, clouds and rain — a full - fledged methalogical cycle.
Instead of water, liquid methane falls as rain, creates rivers that cut into the hydrocarbon - rich surface, which in turn make valleys, and flows into vast liquid methane lakes.