Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Organic Hydrocarbon on Titan

Apparently, they've found more oil in each of the many lakes/seas found on Titan (one of Saturn's moons) than all of Earth's oil fields/reserves/etc combined. The temperature, being -179C, means that Titan has SEAS and LAKES of oil!

The question arises however, if the oil on Earth was created from dead animals/plants through millions of years, how did Titan get all those "organic" hydrocarbons?

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