New Models Suggest Titan Lakes Are Explosion Craters


Illustration of lakes formed on the surface of Titan created from Cassini data.


A new theory, based on radar data from NASA’s Cassini mission, proposes that some of Titan’s lakes formed when pockets of nitrogen blew out basins that filled with methane.




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Source: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory