Liquid flowing on surface of Saturn moon: NASA

0 Comments | AFP, July, 2008

LOS ANGELES (AFP) — NASA scientists said Wednesday they had found liquid on Saturn's moon Titan, only the second body in the solar system after Earth to have fluid on its surface.

The groundbreaking discovery was made after analysis of instruments on the US-European Cassini probe, the spacecraft that has been orbiting Saturn since 2004 following a 3.5 billion-kilometer (2.2 billion miles) voyage.

NASA said in a statement that information from Cassini indicated that large lakes on Titan contained liquid hydrocarbons and ethane.

"This is the first observation that really pins down that Titan has a surface lake filled with liquid," said University of Arizona scientist Bob Brown, team leader of Cassini's visual and mapping instrument.

NASA said large...