Saturn's orange moon Titan has hundreds of times more liquid hydrocarbons than all the known oil and natural gas reserves on Earth, according to new Cassini data. The hydrocarbons rain from the sky, collecting in vast deposits that form lakes and dunes.More at:http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Cassini-Huygens/SEMCSUUHJCF_0.html
Interesting....now it makes me wonder where it all came from? and does that mean we need to find a way to effectively retrieve it before our supplies run dry?
Cassini has discovered evidence that points to the existence of an underground ocean of water and ammonia on Saturn's moon Titan. The findings were made using radar measurements of Titan's rotation.
Read more at:
http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Cassini-Huygens/SEM52QQ03EF_0.html
All sorts of interesting diplomatic obstacles stand in between those hydrocarbon reserves and us, not to mention the scientific ones. Who would own the rights to use them? Anyway, we won't possess the spacefaring know-how to bring them back to earth for many years, maybe even decades or centuries.
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