Sentences with phrase «with hydrocarbon lakes»

The poles are covered with hydrocarbon lakes and boast few craters, while the equator is a vast dune field peppered with impact scars.

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.

Why are Titan's smaller lakes full of clear, pure methane, when scientists expected the lakes to be clogged with hydrocarbon silt?

Scientists with Cassini's radar investigation will be looking this week at their final set of new radar images of the hydrocarbon seas and lakes that spread across Titan's north polar region.

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.

This suggests that over geological timescales, so much hydrocarbon snow would have dissolved in Titan's lakes that they would have become saturated with the stuff (Icarus, doi.org/tzb).

The mountains are made primarily of rock - hard water ice; the dunes are most likely ice granules coated with hydrocarbons; volcanoes probably belch methane and ammonia, and methane fills the lakes, evaporates to form clouds, and rains back down to carve out river channels.

Titan's north polar region, which is bejeweled with sprawling hydrocarbon seas and lakes, was dark when Cassini first arrived at the Saturn system in 2004.