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stevesliva
post Jan 13 2024, 01:25 AM
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https://www.utsa.edu/today/2024/01/story/pr...turns-moon.html
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JANUARY 5, 2024 — Titan’s “magic islands” are likely floating chunks of porous, icy organic solids, a new study by UTSA professor Xinting Yu finds, pivoting from previous work suggesting they were gas bubbles
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post Jan 14 2024, 05:56 PM
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This is a great reminder of just how many new puzzles the Cassini data from Titan opened up. I have always thought that some kind of floating pumice-like material was a strong candidate for the magic islands. The material's composition is fertile ground for speculation, as is the question of whether it snowed from above, calved from the shore or floated up from the sea bed.
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- stevesliva   Magic Islands   Jan 13 2024, 01:25 AM
- - HSchirmer   QUOTE (stevesliva @ Jan 13 2024, 01:25 AM...   Jan 13 2024, 04:11 PM
- - ngunn   This is a great reminder of just how many new puzz...   Jan 14 2024, 05:56 PM
- - Bill Harris   HSchirmer, relating terrestrial magma to the rich...   Jan 28 2024, 06:49 AM
- - HSchirmer   QUOTE (Bill Harris)HSchirmer, relating terrestrial...   Jan 29 2024, 12:01 PM

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