We Now Have a Complete Map of Titan's Surface And It's Surprisingly Like Earth

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MIKE MCRAE
19 JAN 2018

It's been more than a decade since the Cassini mission gave us our first close-up look at Saturn's largest satellite, Titan. Astronomers have spent years sifting through the pool of data to reveal a world that's both strangely alien and remarkably Earth-like.

Now, for the first time, we have a topological map of the moon's surface. And researchers have wasted no time in trying to make sense of this odd little ball of rock.
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Like Earth, it has seas of liquid pooling in depressions on its surface, putting it into a very exclusive club in our Solar System.

Sure, those seas are made of super cold hydrocarbon compounds, rather than water. And happen to be eerily flat. But an ocean is an ocean.

Now it turns out the oceans on Earth and Titan have another thing in common.



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more: https://www.sciencealert.com/topographical-map-titan-reveals-sea-levels-subsurface-liquid?perpetual=yes&limitstart=1

[Judi Lynn]

1. Amazing new info. Can't wait until more is learned and divulged. Thank you. n/t