Oil Lakes on Titan: Saturn's Moon

 

Report: #0064

NASA found more oil than on all of Earth combined. 

 

The Cassini probe orbiting Saturn sent images of Saturn's moon, and scientists estimate these black spots are oil – the blue ones possibly seas of liquid water.

Whoever gets there first has the largest oil well in our solar system.  But where does so much hydrocarbon from extinct lives come from?

Was the oil formed like on Earth? Is methane still being produced by bacteria?

Wow. What a surprise!

Life on a moon. As I said: Life is everywhere. It's no surprise to me. It would surprise me to hear

that there is no life.  Bacteria produce methane. Bacteria are forms of life, well known here on Earth. They live off

organic matter and transform it into different elements. The conclusion from the presence of methane and oil

would then be the presence of organic matter – like plants and at least bacteria.  

Josef Bauer

Credit: PIA09183S0

http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2013/07/titans-eerie-mystery-the-lakes-of-saturns-moon-are-oddlysmooth-with-no-waves-ever-detected.html

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http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/photos/imagedetails/index.cfm?imageId=2951

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/tiff/PIA09183.tif