Friday, October 17, 2014

APOD 1.8

Saturn's moon Titan  has no doubt been an anomaly since the day it was discovered, mostly due to the  fact that it's surface is a hydrocarbon sea surrounded by a cloud of methane and ethane. Thus, being a source of strange interest it naturally has a satellite that has been taking pictures of it's surface for awhile. What's odd is that within one of it's lakes, known as Ligeia Mare, an object appeared back in 2013 on July 10, out of nowhere and has remained there now for a year, but yet upon further review has actually changed. Being 20 km in length, scientists really aren't sure what it is exactly though much speculation has been put in pertaining it. Some believe it to be some sort of bubbling foam, or an odd cluster of floating solids, but again no one really knows what it is. Deeper observation may reveal what it is at some point... But more than likely just bring up more questions, and since we cannot have someone or a robot to go and see up close and personal and bring a sample back, we will likely never know exactly what it is.

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Aliens obviously

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