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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 ]
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] 126,000 ~0.2 [21 ...
This has been described as at the southern shoreline of Kraken Mare, [39] but on a combined radar-VIMS image the location is shown as a separate lake (later named Jingpo Lacus). The observation was made shortly after the north polar region emerged from 15 years of winter darkness.
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 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 .
'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.
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]
TAMPA – Pierre-Edouard Bellemare made his mark with the Lightning as the consummate locker room guy, a player who could lift his teammates with his ever-positive demeanor and genuine ...