{"id":25045,"date":"2011-04-19T13:13:57","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T13:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2011\/04\/19\/does-titan-have-a-subsurface-o\/"},"modified":"2011-04-19T13:13:57","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T13:13:57","slug":"does-titan-have-a-subsurface-o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/19\/does-titan-have-a-subsurface-o\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Titan Have a Subsurface Ocean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1104.2741\">abstract for a recent paper<\/a> on Titan says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;We propose a new Cassini state model for Titan in which we assume the presence of a liquid water ocean beneath an ice shell and consider the gravitational and pressure torques arising between the different layers of the satellite&#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Titan&#8217;s orbit, recently measured to a high degree of accuracy, looks more like an object with an ocean sloshing around than like a solid object. The story is expanded on in<a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/blog\/arxiv\/26662\/\"> this blog post. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The abstract for a recent paper on Titan says: &#8230;We propose a new Cassini state model for Titan in which we assume the presence of a liquid water ocean beneath an ice shell and consider the gravitational and pressure torques arising between the different layers of the satellite&#8230;. Titan&#8217;s orbit, recently measured to a high &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/19\/does-titan-have-a-subsurface-o\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Does Titan Have a Subsurface Ocean?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[191],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6vX","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25045"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}