New radar images of Saturn’s smog-shrouded moon Titan show signs of a shoreline cutting across the moon’s southern hemisphere. Such a shoreline might have been sculpted by liquid methane. Researchers have long speculated that methane, abundant in Titan’s thick atmosphere and recently found in frozen form on its surface, rains down on the moon.
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