Chunks of Frozen Hydrocarbons May be Floating on Titan’s Lakes

(Before It's News)

This artist’s concept envisions what hydrocarbon ice forming on a liquid hydrocarbon sea of Saturn’s moon Titan might look like. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/USGS

The Cassini spacecraft has been getting some strange data from Saturn’s moon Titan, and scientists will soon test out whether there might be “icebergs” of sorts, blocks of hydrocarbon ice floating on the surface of the lakes and seas of liquid hydrocarbon.
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