Titan, Saturn's largest moon, might have a more violent past than astronomers realized. A new study suggests that the liquid methane lakes that dot Titan's surface may have formed when pockets of ...

Structure of Titan The topography seen on Titan makes sense in light of these new findings. And constraining the thickness of the methane clathrate ice crust indicates that Titan's interior is ...

these 10 miles-wide bodies of methane appear to be perched atop big hills and plateaus. Titan has like mesas or buttes hundreds of feet above the surrounding landscape, with deep liquid lakes on top.

Because of the frigid temperatures of Titan, however, this liquid is composed of hydrocarbons like methane and ethane. Still, ...

Two more instruments — the Gas Chromatograph and Mass Spectrometer and the Surface Science Package — provided compelling evidence for the presence of methane rain and liquid flowing on Titan.