Titan offers up secrets to its methane lakes During its final flyby of Titan in 2017, the Cassini spacecraft trained its radar instruments onto the moon – peering beneath the obscuring cloud ...
Scientists have discovered that the icy shell of Saturn's largest moon ... lakes and seas. Because of the frigid temperatures ...
Uncovering lakes of liquid methane and possible ice volcanoes ... Land an unmanned spacecraft on Titan, Saturn's largest moon. And explore the surface for evidence of potential alien life.
Titan is so frigid — about –290 degrees Fahrenheit [–179 degrees Celsius] — that the liquid present there is made up of hydrocarbons like methane and ethane.) But even such a large moon ...
Dragonfly will make the 759,000-mile eight-year journey to Titan, Saturn's largest moon. Rivers, lakes, and seas across its surface are filled with not water, but liquid methane and ethane.
Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon and the solar system's largest, is bigger than Mercury and the dwarf planet Pluto, with a diameter of 5,268 kilometers.