lakes and seas on its surface. Because of its extremely cold temperature, the liquids on Titan are made of hydrocarbons like methane and ethane, and the surface is made of solid water ice.

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 ...

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 ...