Friday 20 July 2012

Titan's riverbeds are surprisingly free of erosion



Artists impression of rivers on Titan

Researchers at MIT have compared images of Titan's rivers with models of river evolution on Earth, to find out that the methane networks on Saturn's largest moon have created surprisingly little erosion.


Graduate student Benjamin Black compared his measurements of Titan's river networks (using images from Nasa's Cassini probe) with a model of Earth's waterways, and found the moon's rivers most resembled the early stages of a terrestrial river's evolution.


By: Mark Brown, Edited by: Olivia Solon


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via Wired.co.uk



http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-07/20/titan-rivers

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