Alien-ocean-in-a-lab experiments produce new crystals not found on Earth

With Earth-like canyons and oceans of liquid methane, Saturn's moon Titan is one of the most fascinating places in the solar system. To better understand this weird world, scientists recreated Titan's alien oceans in the lab, producing new types of crystals that don't occur naturally on Earth but may form a common crust on Titan.

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Category: Space

Tags:

• Astronomy
• Extraterrestrial
• hydrocarbon
• Methane
• NASA
• Ocean
• Titan

from New Atlas (Gizmag) http://bit.ly/31Nd3Kp