Oh, this? Just sunlight reflecting off a lake. A lake of liquid methane. On an icy world 1.4 billion kilometres away. - ThreadSky

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theplanetaryguy.bsky.social • 91 days ago

Oh, this?

Just sunlight reflecting off a lake.

A lake of liquid methane.

On an icy world 1.4 billion kilometres away.

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somnuswanderers.bsky.social•91 days ago

Incredible shot Paul, NASA has the best tech

nonbinaryspork.bsky.social•91 days ago

Omg, that's so cool!

theplanetaryguy.bsky.social•91 days ago

This is NASA Photojournal image PIA12481, taken by the Cassini spacecraft on 8 July 2009. It shows a specular reflection off Jingpo Lacus, a liquid methane lake in Titan's northern hemisphere. At the time, Cassini was 200,000 km from Titan.

Credit: NASA/JPL/UoA/DLR

that-astro-chic.bsky.social•91 days ago

🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽

sciencememe.bsky.social•88 days ago

That's really cool. And to imagine that Cassini, even if in scraps, is to this day somewhere deep inside the atmosphere of Saturn is even cooler!

ollopa11.bsky.social•91 days ago

Dude: you have no idea how unsurprising this is to those of us who lived through the Voyager flyby. We thought the whole place would be covered by an *ocean* of methane (pronounced MEE-thane)

theplanetaryguy.bsky.social•91 days ago

I am a little envious of those who lived through the Voyager era. To find out things *for the first time*, to SEE things for the first time... we have a long time to wait before we start to photograph exoplanet surfaces and I doubt I'll be here to see it.

Also, *always* mee-thane and ee-thane!

justjustsam.bsky.social•91 days ago

piss planet

theplanetaryguy.bsky.social•91 days ago

Interesting take

voteymcvoteface.bsky.social•91 days ago

let’s go check out the neighborhood again

shannonstirone.bsky.social•91 days ago

I cannot wait for Dragonfly

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