{"id":4202,"date":"2012-12-13T10:39:30","date_gmt":"2012-12-13T15:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=4202"},"modified":"2012-12-13T10:39:30","modified_gmt":"2012-12-13T15:39:30","slug":"titanic-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=4202","title":{"rendered":"Titanic river"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/cassini\/whycassini\/cassini20121212.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4203\" alt=\"713391main_pia16197-43b_small\" src=\"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/713391main_pia16197-43b_small.jpg\" width=\"93\" height=\"489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/713391main_pia16197-43b_small.jpg 93w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/713391main_pia16197-43b_small-57x300.jpg 57w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 93px) 100vw, 93px\" \/><\/a>Imagine a world with weather. Hydrocarbon rains falling from an orange sky onto a deadly cold surface with chunks of ice as hard and as dry as rock; or onto vast hydrocarbon seas driven by freezing winds.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, through the orange haze overhead, you may glimpse a giant orb, filling half the sky, and surrounded by an even more magnificent flat ring.<\/p>\n<p>This world exists. It&#8217;s Saturn&#8217;s moon Titan, the only body in the solar system other than the Earth with a stable liquid on its surface and genuine weather with precipitation and a &#8220;hydrological&#8221; cycle.<\/p>\n<p>And now we know for sure that Titan has real rivers. Dubbed &#8220;Mini Nile&#8221; on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/cassini\/whycassini\/cassini20121212.html\">NASA&#8217;s Web site<\/a>, this 400 km long hydrocarbon river is the largest seen to date, and it appears to be filled with liquid along its entire length.<\/p>\n<p>I truly envy those humans who, hopefully on a not too distant day in the future, will stand on the banks of this river, perhaps not even wearing a pressure suit just heated clothing and a breathing mask, and stare at this river in awe.<\/p>\n<p>What will they find in the liquid? Is it harboring some primitive form of life?<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=4202' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine a world with weather. Hydrocarbon rains falling from an orange sky onto a deadly cold surface with chunks of ice as hard and as dry as rock; or onto vast hydrocarbon seas driven by freezing winds. Meanwhile, through the orange haze overhead, you may glimpse a giant orb, filling half the sky, and surrounded <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=4202' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space","category-weather","category-26-id","category-34-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4202"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4205,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4202\/revisions\/4205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}