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https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/21/science/saturn-titan-moon-exploration.html Clouds of methane moving across the far northern regions of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, in 2016. Video by NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute/Univ. of Arizona Out There Seven Hundred Leagues Beneath Titan’s Methane Seas Mars, Shmars; this voyager is looking forward to a submarine ride under the icebergs on Saturn’s strange moon. Clouds of methane moving across the far northern regions of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, in 2016. Video by NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute/Univ. of Arizo...

by Theresa Machemer/Smithsonianmag.com When NASA’s Cassini probe flew just above Saturn’s largest moon Titan while shooting radar at its surface, it was gathering data about the depth of the lakes across the moon’s surface. To figure out a lake’s depth, in theory, Cassini could measure when the radar hit the surface of the lake and then bounced off the bottom and reflected back to the probe. But when Cassini attempted this at Titan’s largest lake, its radar never reached the bottom, George Dvorsky reports for  The lake, called Kraken Mare, was either too deep or too absorptive for ...

The largest lake on Saturn’s largest moon Titan may be deeper than a thousand feet. Even though it’s been more than three years since NASA’s Cassini spacecraft finished orbiting Saturn (when it dove down into the planet’s atmosphere), experts are still finding valuable information from the data that it collected. In one of Cassini’s last flybys of Titan (specifically, the 104 th flyby of the moon on August 21, 2014), it was able to capture significant data of the moon’s largest lake called Kraken Mare. Based on preliminary data, it was believed that the lake was at least 115 feet ...

Science 1 month, 3 weeks It has recently come to light that Cornell scientists have estimated that “Kraken Mare”, a sea of liquid methane that’s located on the Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, is at least 1,000 feet deep near its center. The details of the findings have been published by the researchers in “The Bathymetry of Moray Sinus at Titan’s Kraken Mare,” study in the Journal of Geophysical Research. As reported by Cornell Chronicle, researchers went through the data collected from one of the final Titan flybys of the Cassini mission. The spacecraf...

A Methane Sea on Saturn’s Moon Titan Could Be Over 1,000 Feet Deep 2 A false-color mosaic Titan’s polar regions. Kraken Mare is the dim splotch to the right of center. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/University of Idaho Data gathered by NASA’s Cassini probe has allowed scientists to estimate the depth of Kraken Mare—the biggest methane sea on Saturn’s moon Titan. Advertisement New research published in the Journal of Geophysical Research is expanding our knowledge of Titan’s hydrocarbon seas, specifically Kraken Mare. This sea, approximately 600 miles (1,000 km) lon...