The Astronomy Picture of the Day

[APOD No.6237954]

Titan's Land of Lakes
Image Credit: Cassini Radar Mapper, JPL, USGS, ESA, NASA

Saturn's large moon Titan would be unique in our solar system, the only world with stable liquid lakes and seas on its surface ... except for planet Earth of course. Centered on the north pole, this colorized map shows Titan's bodies of methane and ethane in blue and black, still liquid at frigid surface temperatures of -180 degrees C (-292 degrees F). The map is based on data from the Cassini spacecraft's radar, taken during flybys between 2004 and 2013. Roughly heart-shaped, the lake above and right of the pole is Ligeia Mare, the second largest known body of liquid on Titan and larger than Lake Superior on Earth. Just below the north pole is Punga Mare. The sprawling sea below and right of Punga is the (hopefully sleeping) Kraken Mare, Titan's largest known sea. Above and left of the pole, the moon's surface is dotted with smaller lakes that range up to 50 kilometers across.

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[Anonymous No.6237966]

Motherfucking Titan man
rover on Titan fucking when

[Anonymous No.6237973]

>>6237966
sauce?
looks like mars imo

[Anonymous No.6237983]

>>6237973
Huygens lander, just reverse image search that shit

Barely related, did /sci/ care at all about the chinese rover when it deployed?

[Anonymous No.6237985]

>>6237983
2/2

[Anonymous No.6237993]

>>6237983
yeah sorry I keep forgetting about reverse image search.

there was like 5 threads on the chinese rover

[Anonymous No.6238001]

>>6237993
well damn I wasn't around for them