Article: CASSINI PEAKS THROUGH TITAN'S CLOUDS AND FINDS EVIDENCE OF METHANE LAKES.(News)

Byline: Jim Erickson, Rocky Mountain News

Cassini mission scientists presented the first evidence Thursday that the surface of Saturn's haze-shrouded moon Titan may harbor exotic lakes filled with liquid methane. Theorists had predicted such lakes were a possibility on Saturn's largest moon. But radar images from this week's close-up Titan flyby provide the first support for the idea, said Charles Elachi, head of the Cassini radar team. Elachi and other scientists at a Thursday morning news conference stressed that the evidence for lakes on Titan is inconclusive, based on a review of radar images covering just 1 percent of the moon's surface. "These might be ...

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