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Saturday, January 19, 2013

Dunes Of Terrestrial.

Life on Titan Saturn moon is the only moon in the solar system with a thick atmosphere and the only world besides Earth known to have lakes and seas on its surface.
However this moon Titan has a frigid surface temperature of around minus 290 degrees Fahrenheit (94 kelvins) although temperateness may vary considerably to include 'scientific entropy' push proteins although it may contain moss like plants include yeast unlike Earths Core. The rain that falls from Titan's skies is not water, but contains liquid methane and ethane; compounds that are gases at Earth's temperatures could explain alcoholic nature of this extra terrestrial moon. While many moons show signs of their age, with pockmarked surface and craters, Titan manages to retain its youthful looks - are researcher have finally found out the secret behind its youthful appearance. The secret to eternal youth, they found is simple - sand. Dunes of exotic, hydrocarbon sand are slowly but steadily filling in its craters, according to new research using observations from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Images from the Cassini spacecraft show a 'fresh' crater called Sin-lap (left) and an extremely degraded crater called Soi (right) that has been filled in by sand. These craters are both about 50 miles (80 kilometers) in diameter.
Most of the Saturn’s lunar satellites are morbid - Titan's siblings - have thousands and thousands of craters on their surface,' said. Catherine Neish, a Cassini radar team associate based at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center  'So far on Titan, of the 50 percent of the surface that we've seen in high resolution, we've only found about 60 craters,'
she said. 'It's possible that there are many more craters on Titan, but they are not visible from space because they are so eroded. 'We typically estimate the age of a planet's surface by counting the number of craters on it (more craters means an older surface). 'But if processes like stream erosion or drifting sand dunes are filling them in, it's possible that the surface is much older that it appears. 'This research is the first quantitative estimate of how much the weather on Titan has modified its surface, Neish and her team compared craters on Titan to craters on Jupiter's moon Ganymede. Ganymede is a giant moon with a water ice crust, similar to Titan, so craters on the two moons should have similar shapes. However, Ganymede has almost no atmosphere and thus no wind or rain to erode its surface.

The old Probe found that craters on Titan were on average hundreds of yards shallower than similarly sized craters on Ganymede, suggesting that some process on Titan is filling its craters,' said Neish, who is lead author of a paper about this research published online in the 'Journal Icarus'. Titan captured in front of Saturn. Researchers say it may be older than they thought Titan's atmosphere is mostly nitrogen with a trace of methane and other, more complex molecules made of hydrogen and carbon (hydrocarbons). The source of Titan's methane remains a mystery. 'Since the sand appears to be produced from the atmospheric methane,
Titan must have had methane in its atmosphere for at least several hundred million years in order to fill craters to the levels we are seeing," says Neish. However, researchers estimate Titan's current supply of methane should be broken down by sunlight within tens of millions of years, so Titan either had a lot more methane in the past, or it is being replenished somehow. 'The presence of liquids on the surface and in the near subsurface can also cause extensive modification to crater shape, as is observed on Earth,' Astronomers find sand dunes are filling in its pockmarked surface. New images from the Cassini spacecraft reveal huge differences in the depth of craters on the Saturn satellite. Experts believe dunes of exotic, hydrocarbon sand are slowly but steadily filling in the impact craters. Life likes to create sediments’ although their no monitoring station it could become known as the burping moon.

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