Incredible New Pictures Of Lakes On Saturn's Moon Titan
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Cassini took off back in 2004 with the main goal of exploring Saturn and its moons.
Cassini's most recent passes of Titan's northern hemisphere have shown that one lake called the Kraken Mare is much larger than astronomers originally thought. Astronomers were even able to calculate the depth of the lake Ligeia Mare (560 feet) using radar signaling from Cassini.
The new images and radar analysis show the liquid that make up the lakes and seas of Titan is mostly methane, similar to the liquid form of natural gas on Earth. The lakes form on Titan in a similar way that lakes form on Earth through evaporation and precipitation, except Titan is cycling hydrocarbons.
NASA has altered the actual color of the images below so that its easier to see the lakes and terrain of Titan. You can see the lakes of the northern pole of Titan:
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NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory uploaded an animation of the surface of Titan to YouTube:
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