Sentences with phrase «of liquid methane»

This world possesses rivers and lakes of liquid methane — though even the best telescopes can't see them through the moon's thick, nitrogen - rich atmosphere.

We have since found many bodies of liquid methane of varying sizes; for some reason, they mostly inhabit the high northern latitudes.

A sea of liquid methane laps a shore of solid ice as the biggest rainstorm ever falls from an orange sky.

Cassini team scientist Radebaugh and an international team of colleagues announced in December 2012 that they found a river of liquid methane over 200 miles long resembling the famed Nile.

Radebaugh had expected to see evidence of liquid methane on Titan's surface because it has a methane - rich atmosphere.

As the Huygens probe parachuted to Titan's surface, it revealed the shorelines of a liquid methane sea, plus geologically active mountains and channels.

Some scientists have proposed that erupting cryovolcanoes or deep underground aquifers of liquid methane occasionally recharge Titan with methane.

Huygens came to rest in what looked to be a floodplain strewn with «stones» of water ice polished smooth by flows of liquid methane, and it touched down with a crunch that suggested its slushy landing site was covered in a frozen glaze — a bit like crème brûlée.

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.

They think the lower zones are wetlands fed by a subsurface layer of liquid methane and ethane.

With the sun now shining down over the north pole of Saturn's moon Titan, a little luck with the weather, and trajectories that put the spacecraft into optimal viewing positions, NASA's Cassini spacecraft has obtained new pictures of the liquid methane and ethane seas and lakes that reside near Titan's north pole.

In the years since, Cassini has probed Titan's atmosphere and mapped its surface on successive fly - bys, confirming the presence of liquid methane.

Severe weather doesn't happen very often on Titan, but new research suggests than when it does, the skies unleash torrents of liquid methane that...

Titan is believed to have vast hydrocarbon oceans and rivers made of liquid methane at temperatures that would preclude the possibility of existence of Earth - like organisms.

She was there as Cassini discovered lakes of liquid methane and ethane dotting the poles of Saturn's giant moon Titan, which is larger than the planet Mercury.

Thanks to the NASA's Cassini spacecraft, which mapped a good portion of Titan's surface, scientists know that the moon boasts lakes and seas of liquid methane and ethane.

Cassini also discovered that the moon has three large seas and a number of smaller lakes made of liquid methane.

Titan, we discovered, has lakes and seas made not of water but of liquid methane.

The Titan Mare Explorer would be the first mission to explore an extraterrestrial sea, dropping a capsule onto Ligeia Mare, one of Titan's seas of liquid methane, in 2023.

The joint Jupiter mission beat out a competing proposal to send probes to Saturn, including a balloon and lander to explore Saturn's moon Titan, which boasts a thick atmosphere and lakes of liquid methane and ethane.

With the help of the European Huygens lander, it explored the stunningly dynamic atmosphere of Titan, discovering vast lakes of liquid methane and uncovering a vast subsurface ocean of liquid water.

Even Titan, a large moon of Saturn with a thick atmosphere, might conceivably have some unusual biology on its cold surface, where lakes of liquid methane and ethane may exist.