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Saturn’s Moon Titan Mapped
November 21 , 2019
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- Scientists unveiled the first global geological map of Saturn’s moon Titan, including vast plains and dunes of frozen organic material and lakes of liquid methane.
- The map was based on radar, infrared and other data collected by Nasa’s Cassini spacecraft.
- Titan is the only solar system object other than Earth which has stable liquids on the surface.
- Titan (diameter 5,150km), is the solar system’s second-biggest moon, behind Jupiter’s Ganymede.
- It is larger than the planet Mercury.
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