james_nicoll ([info]james_nicoll) wrote,
@ 2009-12-01 10:52:00
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The Mystery of Titan's Lakes
PASADENA, Calif. -- Researchers at the California Institute of Technology, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and other institutions suggest that the eccentricity of Saturn's orbit around the sun may be responsible for the unusually uneven distribution of lakes over the northern and southern polar regions of the planet's largest moon, Titan. A paper describing the theory appears in the Nov. 29 advance online edition of Nature Geoscience.

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[info]phanatic
2009-12-01 04:29 pm UTC (link)
On what basis have they determined the "usual" uneven distribution of lakes? That would seem to be a pretty small sample size to draw conclusions from.

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