A Paddleboat for Lakes of Gasoline

ByCarl Zimmer
September 27, 2012

Saturn’s moon Titan is speckled with lakes of liquid hydrocarbons that might just the sort of places you’d want to visit in order to look for weird forms of life.

A Spanish engineering firm has designed a probe that could explore the lakes of Titan: a paddleboat. All it needs now is a seat, and I’ll be ready to take a spin on it…

[Source: Europlanet]

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