Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Kraken Mare / ˈ k r ɑː k ən ˈ m ɑːr eɪ / is the largest known hydrocarbon sea on the surface of Saturn's moon Titan. It was discovered by the space probe Cassini in 2006, and was named in 2008 after the Kraken , a legendary sea monster . [ 1 ]
Kraken Mare, the largest sea on Titan, is at lower left. ... Over time, the moon should have built up an ethane ocean hundreds of meters (1,500 to 2,500 feet) deep ...
Synthetic aperture radar mosaic of Titan's north polar region showing Titans largest lakes Kraken Mare, Ligeia Mare, and Punga Mare. Titan Submarine is a proposed NASA submarine probe that will visit Saturn’s largest moon Titan, and will plausibly explore either Kraken Mare or Ligeia Mare, two of Titan’s largest lakes.
The study involved three seas near Titan's north pole: Kraken Mare, the largest, covering an area comparable to Eurasia's Caspian Sea; Ligeia Mare, the second-largest and comparable in area to ...
Titan is the only moon in the Solar System with an atmosphere denser than Earth ... 58 Near Titan's north pole are Kraken Mare, the largest sea; Ligeia Mare, ...
moon of Saturn: 18.6 Kraken Mare: hydrocarbons: surface, north polar region ≈ 400,000 (0.5% of Titan's surface) 0.85 (max) largest known body of surface liquid beside Earth's Ocean; the northern Moray Sinus bay is the only part measured bathymetrically [18] Ligeia Mare: predominantly methane, with small amounts of ethane and nitrogen [19] [20 ...
'Throat of Kraken': unofficial name for the strait that separates the north and south basins of Kraken Mare, before officially being named Seldon Fretum. It was used in early publications that hypothesized about its role with tidal dissipation and surface currents between the two basins of Kraken Mare.
“If you were going to the moon, you’d expect the journey to be uncomfortable but it’d be worth it,” she says. “You just have to think, ‘This is what I need to get from one world to ...