Titan, Earth Weather is Similar

by 158 | August 9, 2009 at 12:48 pm
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"In fact, Titan looks more like the Earth than any other body in the Solar System, despite the huge differences in temperature and other environmental conditions."

Titan is a fascinating moon,

big enough to be a planet.

It is much colder than earth

and the atmosphere is very

different but still the question

arises of whether or not it is

possible for life to exist.

With an average surface temperature hovering around -180 °C, water cannot exist on Titan except as deep-frozen ice as strong as rock," Lopes says. On Titan, methane takes water's place

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