Rivers of Methane
Rivers of Methane The Huygens lander detached from NASA’s Cassini satellite and plummeted toward the surface of Titan in 2005. Along the way, it captured spectacular details of the water and landscape....
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Enormous Lake The largest lake yet found on Titan is the gargantuan Kraken Mare. Discovered in 2007, researchers don’t yet know its full extent but it has been estimated to be about the size of Earth’s...
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Drowned Mountains Ever-changing plate tectonics have built continents and drowned mountains on Earth. Similarly, the surface of Titan has been remolded by geologic processes and the presence of liquid...
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Distant Islands An enormous island lies right in the middle of a section of Kraken Mare on Titan. The landmass, surrounded on all sides by liquid, is roughly the size of the Big Island of Hawaii. Using...
View ArticleSea of Ligeia
As astronomers weekly announce the discovery of new exoplanets – some similar in size or temperature to our home planet – it can be good to remember that Earth-like worlds are not always far away....
View ArticleRiver Rocks
River Rocks When NASA’s Huygens lander reached the surface of Titan in 2005, it captured the first-ever evidence of liquid on the surface of another planet. Landing near the edge of a dried lakeshore,...
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Saturn-rise Over the Lake
Saturn-rise Over the Lake This is an artist’s depiction of a large lake on Titan, as seen from the surface. The landscape is at once alien and familiar: peaceful waves lapping at the shoreline contrast...
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River Plateau Titan’s Xanadu region is an Australia-sized plateau composed of water ice. Flowing over this frozen landscape are remnants of rivers networks, seen as bright cobweb-like filaments in the...
View ArticleThe Rains in the Plains
The Rains in the Plains NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has captured evidence of large weather systems on Titan. In 2010, astronomers noticed that the parts of the surface had darkened after the passing of...
View ArticleLake Ontario
Lake Ontario The largest lake in Titan’s Southern Hemisphere is named Ontario Lacus. Slightly smaller than it’s namesake – Lake Ontario – Ontario Lacus boasts many features reminiscent of earthly...
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