Sunlight Glare Confirms Liquid Hydrocarbons in Titan

Though the NASA/ESA Cassini spacecraft did a number of flybys around Titan, its advanced instruments were not able to penetrate the cloud layers on the moon, so researchers only had to rely on incomplete data collected by non-visual instruments. Regardless, they were able to infer the existen... [ read more >> ]

Sunlight glint on Saturn's moon Titan, proving the existence of liquid surfaces at the North Pole

Image comment: Sunlight glint on Saturn's moon Titan, proving the existence of liquid surfaces at the North Pole
Image credits: NASA / JPL / University of Arizona / DLR

Sunlight glint on Saturn's moon Titan, proving the existence of liquid surfaces at the North Pole