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October 25, 2013
A new river on Saturn’s moon Titan named Vid Flumina (right) resembles a shorter version of Earth’s own Nile.
Tributaries flow into it, and it flows out toward a massive sea. Radebaugh determined that the new Nile must be draining rainfall and subsurface liquids from the area and carrying them toward the moon’s ocean. “There appears to be liquid flowing through that river right now,” she says. - - | DiscoverMagazine.comIn Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.
Posted by gerardvanderleun at October 25, 2013 11:44 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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Doesn't look that much alike to me, that aside, isn't that what rivers do? Flow into larger bodies of water? Has to be slanted and maybe rough terrain, otherwise gravity wouldn't take water to a lower level, accumulating to a larger body of water. Could be the Colorado river, or the Mississippi, Amazon, or…. hmmm… rocket scientists I see run the Discover Magazine dot com spot.
Posted by: Bruce at October 25, 2013 12:29 PM