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https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/21/science/saturn-titan-moon-exploration.html Clouds of methane moving across the far northern regions of Saturnâs largest moon, Titan, in 2016. Video by NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute/Univ. of Arizona Out There Seven Hundred Leagues Beneath Titanâs Methane Seas Mars, Shmars; this voyager is looking forward to a submarine ride under the icebergs on Saturnâs strange moon. Clouds of methane moving across the far northern regions of Saturnâs largest moon, Titan, in 2016. Video by NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute/Univ. of ArizonaCredit. Feb. 21, 2021 What could be more exciting than flying a helicopter over the deserts of Mars? How about playing Captain Nemo on Saturnâs large, foggy moon Titan â plumbing the depths of a methane ocean, dodging hydrocarbon icebergs and exploring an ancient, frigid shoreline of organic goo a billion miles from the sun? ....
Do the eerie similarities between Titan and Earth mean Titan could be at the stage of evolution our planet was at several billion years ago? Maybe. ....
The largest lake on Saturn’s largest moon Titan may be deeper than a thousand feet. Even though it’s been more than three years since NASA’s Cassini spacecraft finished orbiting Saturn (when it dove down into the planet’s atmosphere), experts are still finding valuable information from the data that it collected. In one of Cassini’s last flybys of Titan (specifically, the 104 th flyby of the moon on August 21, 2014), it was able to capture significant data of the moon’s largest lake called Kraken Mare. Based on preliminary data, it was believed that the lake was at least 115 feet deep but according to more in-depth analysis, it has been revealed that it is much deeper – at least 1,000 feet. In fact, it is so deep that the radar on board the spacecraft couldn’t probe all the way down to the bottom of the lake. ....
Science 1Â month, 3Â weeks It has recently come to light that Cornell scientists have estimated that âKraken Mareâ, a sea of liquid methane thatâs located on the Saturnâs 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 âThe Bathymetry of Moray Sinus at Titanâs Kraken Mare,â 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 spacecraftâs radar surveyed Ligeia Mare â a smaller sea in the moonâs northern polar region to discover âmysteriously disappearing and reappearing Magic Islandâ. ....
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. ....