Enlarge / Ligeia Mare, the second-largest body of liquid hydrocarbons on Titan. (credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASI/Cornell) During its T85 Titan flyby on July 24, 2012, the Cassini spacecraft registered an unexpectedly bright reflection on the surface of the lake Kivu Lacus. Its Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS) data was interpreted as a roughness on the methane-ethane lake, which could have been a sign of mudflats, surfacing bubbles, or waves. “Our landscape evolution models show that the shorelines on Titan are most consistent with Earth lakes that have been eroded by waves,” says Rose Palermo, a coastal geomorphologist at St.
Saturn’s Moon Titan Has Shorelines That Appear To Be Shaped By Waves
Jacek Krywko, Ars Technica
Tue, 06/25/2024 - 10:24am
Topics: enlarge ligeia mare nasa/jpl-caltech/asi/cornell t85 july kivu lacus visual infrared mapping spectrometer vims our rose palermo st petersburg coastal marine science center troubled cassini s vims read comments titan cassini palermo shorelines waves time liquid explanation show confirm lake data
BING NEWS:
- Saturn’s moon Titan has shorelines that appear to be shaped by waves
During its T85 Titan flyby on July 24, 2012, the Cassini spacecraft registered an unexpectedly bright reflection on the surface of the lake Kivu Lacus. Its Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer ...
06/25/2024 - 6:23 am | View Link - Saturn’s moon Titan has shorelines shaped by waves
MIT researchers used simulations to study Titan's shorelines and found that waves likely caused the erosion on Titan.
06/23/2024 - 2:30 am | View Link - Titan’s methane lakes might have waves in them — just like Earth’s
Direct observations are still needed, but MIT's research suggests waves have eroded Titan’s coastlines the way they do here on Earth.
06/20/2024 - 3:22 pm | View Link - Surf's up! Liquid methane waves on Saturn moon Titan may erode shores of alien lakes and rivers
"If we could stand at the edge of one of Titan's seas, we might see waves of liquid methane and ethane lapping on the shore and crashing on the coasts during storms." ...
06/20/2024 - 10:00 am | View Link - Wave erosion may have shaped Titan’s coastlines
Fig. 1. Lakes on Titan and Earth with coastlines shaped by a variety of erosional mechanisms. The results of the experiment suggest that if the moon’s coastlines have been shaped by erosion in a ...
06/20/2024 - 4:57 am | View Link - More
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