23 January 2005

Satellite of Fire

Weird.

LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) -- Saturn's moon Titan is covered by "dirty" ice ridges and seas of liquid natural gas, a team of scientists said on Friday after a week of research into data from the space probe Huygens.

"We've got a flammable world," said Toby Owen, an atmospheric scientist, at a news conference from European Space Agency offices in Paris monitored on NASA TV.

I haven't read up on what Titan's atmosphere consists of. If I find an article with some data on that, I'll post it.

Update: I should have finished reading the article. Titan's atmosphere is composed of Methane and Nitrogen, but lacks one important ingredient: Oxygen. No Oxygen, no fire.

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