Saturn’s Moon Titan Has Flowing Methane Rivers – So Where Are the Deltas?

Scientists Reveal Titan Might Support Life, Just Barely

If there's life in the solar system beyond Earth, Saturn's largest moon, Titan, seems a logical place to find it. A new study says maybe, but in tiny amounts.

Scientists confused by missing coastal features on Titan, Saturn's largest moon

Scientists have long known that Saturn's largest moon, Titan, hosts rivers and seas of liquid methane. But it's strangely lacking in river deltas, a new study suggests.

Saturn’s Moon Titan Has Flowing Methane Rivers – So Where Are the Deltas?

Despite its Earth-like rivers and lakes of liquid methane, Saturn’s moon Titan seems oddly lacking in river deltas — geological formations that are typically rich in historical clues. Using data from the Cassini spacecraft and simulations based on Earth’s landscapes, researchers expected to find deltas at the mouths of Titan’s rivers. Instead, they found almost [...]

Saturn's moon could have life, but only a little bit

Saturn’s moon Titan could harbor life, but only a tiny amount, a new study finds. Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, is a strange, alien world. Covered in rivers and lakes of liquid methane, icy boulders, and dunes of soot-like “sand,” its topography has long fascinated scientists and invited speculation on whether lifeforms might lurk beneath the moon’s thick, hazy atmosphere. An international team of researchers co-led by Antonin Affholder at the U…

A new investigation has confirmed that despite the great rivers and seas of liquid methane, Titan, Saturn’s moon, lacks river deltas, which raises an enigma about its surface dynamics. “We assume that if there are rivers and sediments, deltas are obtained,” said Sam Birch, an assistant professor at the Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences at Brown University, who directed the work. “But Titan is peculiar. It is a playground …

The study of Titan revealed the absence of deltas, although there are rivers there. What does it mean to search for water? Read details tsn.ua (1+1 news).