Friday, May 13, 2011

On Saturn?s moon Titan, spring rains but no spring flowers

At last, spring has sprung. Heavy, persistent rains have arrived sometimes overflowing riverbeds and gullies. River and lake ice have thawed. Tropical weather systems are migrating north. And at northern latitudes, average temperatures have finally risen above the freezing point of -297 degrees F. 297 degres F below zero? Did you catch that? There is no error. I?m not talking about freezing/melting point of water, but rather methane. And the coming of spring is occurring not on Earth but on Titan, the largest moon of the planet Saturn.


Source: http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=eabcb0f93fcbe435c061b401985352e5

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