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Largest Sea On Titan, Saturn s Largest Moon, Estimated To Be Over 1,000 Feet Deep

Science 1 month, 3 weeks It has recently come to light that Cornell scientists have estimated that “Kraken Mare”, a sea of liquid methane that’s located on the Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, is at least 1,000 feet deep near its center. The details of the findings have been published by the researchers in “The Bathymetry of Moray Sinus at Titan’s Kraken Mare,” study in the Journal of Geophysical Research. As reported by Cornell Chronicle, researchers went through the data collected from one of the final Titan flybys of the Cassini mission. The spacecraft’s radar surveyed Ligeia Mare – a smaller sea in the moon’s northern polar region to discover “mysteriously disappearing and reappearing Magic Island”.

A Methane Sea on Saturn s Moon Titan Could Be Over 1,000 Feet Deep

A Methane Sea on Saturn’s Moon Titan Could Be Over 1,000 Feet Deep 2 A false-color mosaic Titan’s polar regions. Kraken Mare is the dim splotch to the right of center. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/University of Idaho Data gathered by NASA’s Cassini probe has allowed scientists to estimate the depth of Kraken Mare the biggest methane sea on Saturn’s moon Titan. Advertisement New research published in the Journal of Geophysical Research is expanding our knowledge of Titan’s hydrocarbon seas, specifically Kraken Mare. This sea, approximately 600 miles (1,000 km) long, is larger than all five of North America’s Great Lakes combined and holds around 80% of the moon’s surface liquids. The seas on Titan contain lots of methane and ethane and are comparable to liquified natural gas on Earth.

Robot submarine could be used to explore methane sea on Saturn s moon, say scientists

Saturn s moon Titan estimated to have a sea at least 1000 feet deep

Shane McGlaun - Jan 22, 2021, 5:02am CST One of the places that many scientists believe could harbor life in our solar system is on the surface of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. Titan has a gaseous atmosphere and scientists believe beneath that atmosphere is a sea of liquid methane known as Kraken Mare. Astronomers at Cornell have now estimated the sea of liquid methane is at least 1000 feet deep near its center. That’s good news because researchers say it is deep enough for a potential robotic submarine to explore. The announcement comes after the researchers sifted through data obtained from one of the final Cassini flybys of Titan. Lead author on the research Valerio Poggiali says the depth and composition of each of Titan’s seas have already been measured except for Kraken Mare.

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