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On Saturn's Moon Titan, Ice Volcanoes

Posted December 17, 2008 8:43 AM

From Discovery News Top Stories : Discovery Channel:

Observations from the international Cassini spacecraft suggest Saturn's largest moon may have active or recently active ice volcanoes. Radar images point to flows on the surface of Titan that could result from volcanoes spewing chilled liquid from the interior, mission scientists reported Monday.

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Re: On Saturn's Moon Titan, Ice Volcanoes

12/18/2008 5:44 AM

I have always understood that volano's need vast amounts of heat and upwelling magma to produce eruptions?

What is the surface temperature of Saturns largest moon?

What is the temperature of the chilled liquid that comes from it's interior?

These are very important questions that must be answered if I am to believe what is written about this moon????

Spencer.

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Re: On Saturn's Moon Titan, Ice Volcanoes

12/18/2008 4:31 PM

"Heat" is a subjective term. Temperature differential may be a better term when trying to describe what goes on in Titan. Then throw in pressure changes based on those temperature differentials and, voila, you can have stuff spewing all over the place.

After all a lot of those liquids readily become gasses at not much higher temps. Shake up a cold bottle of soda. Don't need any heat for a soda volcano.

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