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 ...

Understanding these geological dynamics on Titan helps scientists study methane’s affect on our ... body in the Solar System ...

These vast expanses of liquid, however, are not water but hydrocarbons such as methane and ethane, forming seas, lakes, and ...

“One of the many cool things about Titan is its very thick atmosphere, which is mostly nitrogen,” she says. “But it also has an important five percent or so of methane. And methane ...

These aren't your average lakes. They're called thermokarst lakes and they're filled with highly flammable methane gas. During the summer the gas bubbles to the surface and enters the atmosphere.