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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 ]
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 concept was proposed by Steven Oleson, Ralph Lorenz , and Micheal Paul, technical experts at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Ohio .
Since 2014, Cassini has detected transient features in scattered patches in Kraken Mare, Ligeia Mare and Punga Mare. Laboratory experiments suggest these features (e.g. RADAR-bright "magic islands") [ 28 ] might be vast patches of bubbles caused by the rapid release of nitrogen dissolved in the lakes.
Mayda Insula lies in the northern end of the Kraken Mare near Titan's north pole. [4] The island has a northernmost latitude of 80.3 degrees north and a southernmost latitude of 77.4 degrees north; it has a westernmost longitude of approximately 321.2 degrees west and an easternmost longitude of 302.7 degrees west. [5]
After Kraken Mare and Ligeia Mare, it is the third largest known body of liquid on Titan. [1] It is composed of liquid hydrocarbons (mainly methane and ethane ). Located almost adjacent to the north pole at 85.1° N, 339.7° W, it measures roughly 380 km (236 mi) across, [ 1 ] [ note 1 ] greater than the length of Lake Victoria on Earth .
Ligeia Mare / l aɪ ˈ dʒ iː ə ˈ m ɑːr eɪ / [2] is a lake in the north polar region of Titan, the planet Saturn's largest moon. It is the second largest body of liquid on the surface of Titan, after Kraken Mare . [ 3 ]
Titan Mare Explorer (TiME) is a proposed design for a lander for Saturn's moon Titan. [3] TiME is a relatively low-cost, outer-planet mission designed to measure the organic constituents on Titan and would have performed the first nautical exploration of an extraterrestrial sea, analyze its nature and, possibly, observe its shoreline.
The Titan Mare Explorer (TiME) could become the lake-lander of the TSSM. Numerous proposals have been brought forward with respect to the lake-lander concept. One of the most detailed plans so far is the so-called Titan Mare Explorer (TiME), which had originally been proposed as a separate scout mission, but might eventually be postponed and ...