December 20, 2013

A Map of Titan’s Lakes

There is only one place in our solar system with stable liquid lakes and seas on its surface, besides planet Earth. Saturn’s moon Titan is this place.

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There is only one place in our solar system with stable liquid lakes and seas on its surface, besides planet Earth. Saturn’s moon Titan is this place, and the colorized map above shows Titan’s bodies of methane and ethane in blue and black, still liquid at frigid surface temperatures of -180 degrees C (-292 degrees F).

Image Credit: Cassini Radar Mapper, JPL, USGS, ESA, NASA

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