Titan's Methane Rivers Echo Earth's Hydrology, Flowing Through Ice

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Source: Space Daily
Titan's Methane Rivers Echo Earth's Hydrology, Flowing Through Ice
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Titan, Saturn's largest moon, hosts standing surface liquid—methane and ethane—driven by a slow hydrological cycle that forms rivers, rain, lakes and seas, with bedrock of water ice and surface features mapped by Cassini-Huygens; Kraken Mare and Ligeia Mare are fed by Vid Flumina, and a Dragonfly rotorcraft mission is planned for the 2030s to study Titan up close; while Earthlike in form, Titan's cycle uses different liquids and conditions, and life as we know it is unlikely.

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