Although wise labs has come in for some criticism notably with design on probes and monitoring of planetary probes. It has said that life on planets in our solar system should be examined as to determine its origins. As it is as much as wise labs expects going forward. The moon on Titan is the only known other moon object in orbit of the sun that retained a visible surface liquid and its worth having a few video stations to observe its potential life. Cassini has seen a vast network of these hydrocarbon seas cover Titan's northern hemisphere, while a more sporadic set of lakes bejewels the southern hemisphere.
Cassini scientists assumed that Titan lakes would not have floating ice, because solid methane is denser than liquid methane and would sink.
Titan in front of Saturn: researchers now believe the moon could hold 'exotic life' in its lakes and rivers. But the new model, revealed today, considers the interaction between the lakes and the atmosphere, resulting in different mixtures of compositions, pockets of nitrogen gas, and changes in temperature. The result, scientists found, is that winter ice will float in Titan's methane-and-ethane-rich lakes and seas if the temperature is below the freezing point of methane.
Temperature ranges from Minus 297 degrees Fahrenheit (90.4 Kelvins).
We now know it's possible to get methane-and-ethane-rich ice freezing over on Titan in thin blocks that congeal together as it gets colder -- similar to what we see with Arctic sea ice at the onset of winter,' said Jason Hofgartner, first author on the paper and a Natural Sciences and Engineering. 'An artist's impression of the hydrocarbon 'icebergs' on Titan scientists believe could harbour an exotic form of life. Titan is the only other body besides Earth in our solar system with stable bodies of liquid on its surface. Research Council of Canada scholar at Cornell 'We'll want to take these conditions into consideration if we ever decide to explore the Titan surface some day.
However, while our planet's cycle of precipitation and evaporation involves water, Titan's cycle involves hydrocarbons like ethane and methane.
Ethane and methane are organic molecules, which scientists think can be building blocks for the more complex chemistry from which life arose. Saturn's moon Titan is home to lakes of massive hydrocarbon 'icebergs' that could form exotic forms of life, scientists have claimed. Nasa researchers say the new theory may also explain bizarre reading from the vast lakes and seas on the moon. 'One of the most intriguing questions about these lakes and seas is whether they might host an exotic form of life,' said Jonathan Lunine of Cornell University, who co-authored the study.
The Kepler space telescope was launched by NASA in 2009 with the intention of finding Earth-like planets. It pinpoints potential new planets by measuring the dimming of starlight as planets pass between stars and the telescope. Not all light filtration known as dimming is caused by planets and it is only once dimming has been observed three times that it is formally attributed to a potential planet.
Further measurements and observations are required to confirm the identification. In the last year the number of confirmed planets pinpointed by Kepler has risen from 33 to 105. 'The analysis of increasingly longer time periods of Kepler data uncovers smaller planets in longer period orbits -- orbital periods similar to Earth's," said Steve Howell, of NASA's Ames Research Center in California. 'It is no longer a question of will we find a true Earth analogue, but a question of when.' One of the most exciting findings is that four planets have been identified which are less than twice the size of Earth and orbit in their sun's habitable zone, the region in the planetary system where liquid water might exist on the surface of a planet. Latest findings released by NASA show that since February last year there have been 461 potential new planets discovered. These bring the total number of potential planets that have been identified by the Kepler mission to 2,740 and they orbit 2,036 stars.
Cassini scientists assumed that Titan lakes would not have floating ice, because solid methane is denser than liquid methane and would sink. Titan in front of Saturn: researchers now believe the moon could hold 'exotic life' in its lakes and rivers. But the new model, revealed today, considers the interaction between the lakes and the atmosphere, resulting in different mixtures of compositions, pockets of nitrogen gas, and changes in temperature. The result, scientists found, is that winter ice will float in Titan's methane-and-ethane-rich lakes and seas if the temperature is below the freezing point of methane.
Temperature ranges from Minus 297 degrees Fahrenheit (90.4 Kelvins). We now know it's possible to get methane-and-ethane-rich ice freezing over on Titan in thin blocks that congeal together as it gets colder -- similar to what we see with Arctic sea ice at the onset of winter,' said Jason Hofgartner, first author on the paper and a Natural Sciences and Engineering. 'An artist's impression of the hydrocarbon 'icebergs' on Titan scientists believe could harbour an exotic form of life. Titan is the only other body besides Earth in our solar system with stable bodies of liquid on its surface. Research Council of Canada scholar at Cornell 'We'll want to take these conditions into consideration if we ever decide to explore the Titan surface some day.
However, while our planet's cycle of precipitation and evaporation involves water, Titan's cycle involves hydrocarbons like ethane and methane. Ethane and methane are organic molecules, which scientists think can be building blocks for the more complex chemistry from which life arose. Saturn's moon Titan is home to lakes of massive hydrocarbon 'icebergs' that could form exotic forms of life, scientists have claimed. Nasa researchers say the new theory may also explain bizarre reading from the vast lakes and seas on the moon. 'One of the most intriguing questions about these lakes and seas is whether they might host an exotic form of life,' said Jonathan Lunine of Cornell University, who co-authored the study.
Further measurements and observations are required to confirm the identification. In the last year the number of confirmed planets pinpointed by Kepler has risen from 33 to 105. 'The analysis of increasingly longer time periods of Kepler data uncovers smaller planets in longer period orbits -- orbital periods similar to Earth's," said Steve Howell, of NASA's Ames Research Center in California. 'It is no longer a question of will we find a true Earth analogue, but a question of when.' One of the most exciting findings is that four planets have been identified which are less than twice the size of Earth and orbit in their sun's habitable zone, the region in the planetary system where liquid water might exist on the surface of a planet. Latest findings released by NASA show that since February last year there have been 461 potential new planets discovered. These bring the total number of potential planets that have been identified by the Kepler mission to 2,740 and they orbit 2,036 stars.
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