A Paddleboat for Lakes of Gasoline

The Loom
By Carl Zimmer
Sep 27, 2012 7:15 PMNov 20, 2019 3:01 AM

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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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