Science, Space

Cassini Explores a Methane Sea on Titan (Watch)

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

Pasadena, CA-(ENEWSPF)- Of the hundreds of moons in our solar system, Titan is the only one with a dense atmosphere and large liquid reservoirs on its surface, making it in some ways more like a terrestrial planet.

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Both Earth and Titan have nitrogen-dominated atmospheres — over 95 percent nitrogen in Titan’s case. However, unlike Earth,…

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