(Click image for more info )PASADENA, Calif. – Scientists with NASA’s Cassini mission have spotted what appears to be a miniature, extraterrestrial likeness of Earth’s Nile River: a river valley on Saturn’s moon Titan that stretches more than 200 miles (400 kilometers) from its “headwaters” to a large sea. It is the first time images have revealed a river system this vast and in such high resolution anywhere other than Earth.
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December 12, 2012 at 6:36 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
I’m wondering why this is compared to the Nile in particular.
StevoR
December 12, 2012 at 9:35 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
@1. F [disappearing] : Similar looking course and extent I guess?
Or perhaps the Titanian pyramids and sphinx* on its banks! (Psst. Don’t tell Hoagland.) ;-)
Great find although I wouldn’t want to swim in its waters – not without a *really* well-heated spacesuit anyhow. (Would that suit make me too buoyant to swim there?)
Wonder if this Titanian “nile” has got a name yet and whether they’ll pick one that echoes its Nile resemblance? Maybe we should name it the Tenial / Tenile maybe? ;-)
* No, not really.