The Cassini probe flew by Titan on October 26, 2004, and took the highest-resolution images ever of Titan's surface, at only 1,200 km (750 mi), discerning patches of light and dark that would be invisible …

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Apr 25, 2025 · Titan’s surface is sculpted by flowing methane and ethane, which carves river channels and fills great lakes with liquid natural gas. No other world in the solar system, aside from Earth, has …

A view of Titan’s surface from the Huygens probe, showing a landscape with contrasting light and dark regions. The darker areas may indicate past or present liquid activity, possibly shaped by methane or …

Dec 17, 2025 · Titan’s surface, like Earth’s, is sculpted by wind and probably also rain (in the form of liquid methane). “River” channels coated with dark hydrocarbon deposits are common, sometimes …

Over the years, scientists have dramatically changed their minds about Titan's surface. In the 1990s, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope spied an area on Titan that was brighter than the rest.

Noting that no volcanic features had been unambiguously identified on Titan so far, he asserted that Titan is a geologically dead world, whose surface is shaped only by impact cratering, fluvial and …

Apr 28, 2025 · Titan is the only place besides Earth known to have liquids on its surface. It has clouds, rain, rivers, lakes and seas of liquid hydrocarbons like methane and ethane.

Nov 5, 2024 · NASA's Cassini spacecraft would eventually complete more than 100 targeted flybys of Titan, sending European Space Agency’s Huygens probe to land on the mysterious, alien world—the …

Nov 21, 2019 · Hydrocarbon material is transported and deposited around the moon by processes like erosion and can be found covering much of Titan’s surface, including the vast regions of plains and …