Astronomers Discover Signs Of Waves On Titan (Video)

via Unexplained Mysteries

Saturn’s enigmatic moon Titan could be home to the first known ocean waves outside of the Earth.

While on our own planet we have lakes, oceans and rain made of liquid water, on Titan these same features exist but are instead made of liquid methane, ethane and other hydrocarbons due to the moon’s thick atmosphere and freezing temperatures.

Now scientists believe that they may have spotted the first signs that the seas of Titan share another feature common to Earth’s oceans. Glints of light picked up from the surface by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft suggest that Titan’s hydrocarbon oceans may also produce their own waves and ripples, albeit on a much smaller scale.

Titan is a very intriguing piece of galactic property.  I hope one day to see a more mature, less destructive human race colonizing this place among others.  I think it is our destiny to reach for the stars, just as we felt the need to explore and settle the Earth. It sounds like we are a virus, a parasite,a cancer and right now I’d say thats true but I hope someday it isn’t.