Liquid Discovered on Saturn’s Moon Titan

Since the space probe Cassini reached Saturn in 2004, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has been studying in depth the ringed planet and its moons. One moon in particular Titan, which scientists theorized had liquid on its surface, but could never verify until Cassini reached Saturn. After over forty close fly-bys of Titan, the spacecraft dropped a probe to land on the surface of the moon, the end results were some rather startling images. First was the discovery that Titan did indeed possess an atmosphere made up primarily of methane gas. The second discovery was that Titan has lakes of liquid ethane, which makes Titan the only other planet besides Earth with liquid on its surface. For those who don't know, liquid ethane is a component of crude oil, which means, Shell, Exxon/Mobil, or BP better take advantage of this before Al Gore decides to blockade the planet.