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Possible tropical lakes on Titan from observations of dark terrain

Tomasko, Martin G.; Brown, Robert H.; Griffith, Caitlin A. +5 more

Titan has clouds, rain and lakes--like Earth--but composed of methane rather than water. Unlike Earth, most of the condensable methane (the equivalent of 5 m depth globally averaged) lies in the atmosphere. Liquid detected on the surface (about 2 m deep) has been found by radar images only poleward of 50° latitude, while dune fields pervade the tr…