Monday, November 30, 2009

Puzzling Lake Asymmetry on Titan Explained

Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) suggest that the eccentricity of Saturn’s orbit around the sun may be responsible for the unusually uneven distribution of lakes over the northern and southern polar regions of the planet?s largest moon, Titan. A paper describing the theory appears in the November 29th advance online edition of [...]



Full story at http://spacefellowship.com/2009/11/30/puzzling-lake-asymmetry-on-titan-explained/

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