And now, the shipping forecast for Titan. Missions to explore the oceans on Saturn’s largest moon might have to contend with powerful currents driven by solar energy.
Titan is the only place in the solar system, besides Earth, that has large bodies of liquid on its surface, though its seas are composed of hydrocarbons such as methane rather than water. Now researchers have built simulations of currents in the large seas in the moon’s northern hemisphere, using maps created from radar data collected by the Cassini probe.
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