Science, Space

Profile of a Methane Sea on Titan

Ligeia Mare
Ligeia Mare

EU–(ENEWSPF)–26 April 2016.  Saturn’s largest moon is covered in seas and lakes of liquid hydrocarbons – and one sea has now been found to be filled with pure methane, with a seabed covered by a sludge of organic-rich material, and possibly surrounded by wetlands.Of all the moons in the Solar System, Titan is the only one with a thick atmosphere and large liquid reservoirs on its surface – in some ways making it…

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