John Zarnecki on Titan

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John Zarnecki

What would I like to leave there?  I think I’d leave a CrystalPalace football programme so I could then say that my beloved football team had a truly cosmic reach.

Well, the discovery of ice volcanoes on Titan just shows us what a diverse, intriguing place it is.  Despite being so far from the sun and therefore relatively cold, there is so much going on, you know, we’ve got lakes and seas, we’ve got hills, mountains, we’ve got weather, meteorology, we’ve got rain, we’ve got methane rivers almost certainly flowing, and now we’re finding these cryo-volcanoes, low temperature volcanoes where material is extruding from below the surface and spreading out across the icy surface.  So, this is really one of the most diverse places other than the earth in our entire solar system.

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