Thursday, May 5, 2016

Methane Sea on Titan

We knew that Saturn’s moon Titan had seas and lakes of liquid hydrocarbons, but their exact composition was unknown until recently.

Sunlight glints off of Titan’s northern seas this near-infrared,
color mosaic from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. Image via NASA/JPL/Univ. Arizona/Univ. Idaho

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