07-06-2016 15:08 via uk.news.yahoo.com

'Magic Islands' May Bubble to the Surface of Saturn's Moon Titan

Bubbling seas may create the mysterious "magic islands" of Titan, Saturn's largest moon. New research has revealed that mixing the most common elements found on Titan produces nitrogen bubbles. It's possible the bubbles are forming in Titan's oceans, where scientists have observed strange features that appear and disappear from satellite images — the so-called magic islands of Titan — according to Michael Malaska, a planetary scientist at  of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in
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