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Io Compared To Titan
exoplanet
post Apr 21 2005, 01:36 AM
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My first post a few months ago received no reply. I highly suspect that the "craters" that have been imaged on Titan are most likely volcanic calderas and very, very, active. I have found a photo taken from Gallileo showing similar serpentine channels that are found on Io that are as well found on Titan (only these are lava channels on Io):

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=6859

Curious to know what you all think???

I think that Titan might surprisingly be a very geologically active world. If so, what would be creating the internal heat???
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post Apr 21 2005, 03:45 AM
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I'm not sure if Titan is active or not, but couldn't it be tugged around by Saturn's gravity similarly to how Io is tugged around by Jupiter's?
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- exoplanet   Io Compared To Titan   Apr 21 2005, 01:36 AM
- - mike   I'm not sure if Titan is active or not, but co...   Apr 21 2005, 03:45 AM
|- - dvandorn   QUOTE (mike @ Apr 20 2005, 10:45 PM)I'm n...   Apr 21 2005, 07:24 AM
- - BruceMoomaw   Actually, Bruce Bills and Francis Nimmo have specu...   Apr 27 2005, 07:40 PM
- - volcanopele   QUOTE (BruceMoomaw @ Apr 27 2005, 12:40 PM)Ac...   Apr 27 2005, 10:29 PM

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