A Large Lake Of Methane Discovered On Titan

Dark features thought to be lakes of liquid methane appear in this radar image of Titan

Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, has recently been asserted as a good contender for harboring life — not water-based life like on Earth, but methane-based instead. NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has brought back pictures of what seems to be a very large lake of liquid methane. It may take a while before we can determine if any life form is swimming in it, though.

A lake the size of the Caspian Sea may have been spotted on Saturn’s frigid moon, Titan. If it is indeed filled with liquid, the 1100-kilometre-long lake would be the largest yet found on the moon.

Source: New Scientist

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