Comments on: Cassini probe snaps pic of ice plowing through Saturn’s rings http://www.slashgear.com/cassini-probe-snaps-pic-of-ice-plowing-through-saturns-rings-25224608/ Feeding Your Gadget and Tech Obsessions Tue, 15 May 2012 14:06:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: jhdale http://www.slashgear.com/cassini-probe-snaps-pic-of-ice-plowing-through-saturns-rings-25224608/#comment-205125 jhdale Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:12:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=224608#comment-205125 Well, first of all, it’s not. The atmosphere is 1.4-4.9% methane. Most of the rest (>95%) is inert nitrogen gas.

But even if it was 100% methane it wouldn’t burst into flame, because methane requires oxygen to burn. You tend not to get oxygen in an atmosphere because it is too reactive. The exception on Earth is only because plants, algae, etc are producing oxygen in significant quantities.

]]> By: 013 Brian http://www.slashgear.com/cassini-probe-snaps-pic-of-ice-plowing-through-saturns-rings-25224608/#comment-205113 013 Brian Wed, 25 Apr 2012 14:29:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=224608#comment-205113 Why, if the atmosphere is highly flammable gas, isn’t Titan on fire, after-all , it would only need a flaming asteroid or meteor to provide a spark?

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