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Titan's Interior, Titan insides like Callisto
belleraphon1
post Mar 11 2010, 11:50 PM
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Very interesting...

"Cassini Data Show Ice and Rock Mixture Inside Titan "
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2010-084

Interior like Callisto, exterior Earthlike.....

Hmmmmmmmmmmm......

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post Jun 12 2010, 03:03 PM
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I find it somewhat hard to believe. How radiogenic heating of such a big volume of material managed to escape through its surface - especially considering a thick layer of atmosphere over it?
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- belleraphon1   Titan's Interior   Mar 11 2010, 11:50 PM
- - belleraphon1   I find this very exciting. Kinda like another para...   Mar 12 2010, 12:13 AM
- - Juramike   Putting all the big moons in perspective: Titan: ...   Mar 12 2010, 12:34 AM
- - nprev   How puzzling and unexpected (at least to me!) ...   Mar 12 2010, 02:00 AM
- - belleraphon1   Yeah Nprev... surprised me too! Not what I ex...   Mar 12 2010, 02:56 AM
- - elakdawalla   I feel like more people ought to be tipping the ha...   Mar 12 2010, 03:09 AM
|- - Juramike   QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Mar 11 2010, 10:09 P...   Mar 12 2010, 02:28 PM
- - nprev   I'd forgotten that. FWIW from the likes of me,...   Mar 12 2010, 03:21 AM
- - ngunn   Time to check for methane slowly oozing out of Cal...   Mar 12 2010, 11:56 AM
- - belleraphon1   I do remember that paper by Moore. Actually my wor...   Mar 12 2010, 12:41 PM
- - ngunn   How much do we really know about the mobility of m...   Mar 12 2010, 01:23 PM
- - Bill Harris   One puzzle to me is that Titan (and the other larg...   Mar 12 2010, 03:30 PM
|- - ngunn   QUOTE (Bill Harris @ Mar 12 2010, 03:30 P...   Mar 12 2010, 04:40 PM
- - Juramike   IIRC, the quote I remember is that Titan is about ...   Mar 12 2010, 04:12 PM
- - Den   I find it somewhat hard to believe. How radiogenic...   Jun 12 2010, 03:03 PM

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