Cassini Data Shows Lake On Titan Is More Than 1,000 Feet Deep Written 25 January 2021
This illustration shows NASA’s Cassini spacecraft above Saturn's northern hemisphere. | Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech
SPACE reported that data from NASA’s Cassini mission revealed that lake Kraken Mare on Saturn’s moon Titan “is more than 1,000 feet (300 meters) deep.” The data showed that Kraken Mare “contains a mix of methane and ethane, which differed from previous models suggesting ethane would prevail due to the lake’s size and geographical position farther from the moon’s poles. The unexpected chemistry in the lake could help scientists better understand the precipitation cycle on Titan, according to the researchers.” Engineers “are working on a submarine concept that, if funded and approved by NASA, could launch in the 2030s to plumb Titan’s lakes.”
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