12/15/10

New Ice Volcano Sighted on Saturn's Moon Titan -May Explain Presence of Methane Atmosphere

Sotra, a volcano more than 3,000 feet tall surrounded by giant sand dunes, with a one mile deep pit alongside it has been discovered on Titan by scientists using NASA's Cassini spacecraft to map the moon. So far only about half of Titan has been imaged. Sotra is thought to be the largest in a string of several volcanoes that once spewed molten ice from deep beneath the moon's surface... Read More



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