The Lakes of Titan
I don’t think you’d want to go swimming in them but they are rather beautiful from above. Images after the jump.
Newly assembled radar images from Cassini provide the best views of the hydrocarbon lakes and seas on Saturn’s moon Titan. A new radar image reveals that Titan’s south polar region also has lakes.
The southern region images were beamed back after a flyby on 2 October in which a prime goal was the hunt for lakes at the south pole.A new mosaic image comprised from seven Titan fly-bys over the last year and a half shows a north pole pitted with giant lakes and seas, at least one of them larger than Lake Superior in the USA.
Approximately 60% of Titan’s north polar region, above 60° north, has been mapped by Cassini’s radar instrument. About 14% of the mapped region is covered by what scientists interpret as liquid hydrocarbon lakes.
