Titan's Inner Ocean Very Salty
Ocean on Saturn’s Moon Titan Could be as Salty as the Dead Sea, NASA
“Scientists analyzing data from NASA’s Cassini mission have firm evidence the ocean inside Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, might be as salty as the Earth’s Dead Sea.
The new results come from a study of gravity and topography data collected during Cassini’s repeated flybys of Titan during the past 10 years. Using the Cassini data, researchers presented a model structure for Titan, resulting in an improved understanding of the structure of the moon’s outer ice shell. The findings are published in this week’s edition of the journal Icarus.”
Well, that’s . . . bad? I don’t know. Highly saline environments are difficult for life, but they’re not dead-zones – both the Great Salt Lake and the Dead Sea have microbial life that survive there.
Stunning data teased from data designed for other information types by some very creative people.