Space probe “Cassini”, showed the latest pictures of summer in the Northern hemisphere of Titan.
In the lens of the camera got the white clouds in the planet’s atmosphere and shining lake, the dark color of the hydrocarbons.
Today Saturn’s moon Titan is the only known celestial body in the Solar system besides Earth with water on its surface. Over the long years of work on the orbit of Saturn “Cassini” found a considerable number of rivers, lakes and seas. Also, scientists learned about the existence of a mysterious temporary Islands on Titan, from time to time disappearing and re-appearing on the surface of the seas.
For a long time astronomers didn’t know about the exact chemical composition of these lakes, but the situation changed last year when scientists were able to examine the contents of the largest sea satellite Legei, using radar Cassini. As it turned out, the “water” of this portion of the planet composed of methane, the bottom is covered with slime from nitrogen and hydro-carbon-coast swamps.
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