Titan’s vast seas may drive methane cycle

Saturn moon’s methane-filled lakes contribute to process akin to hydrological cycle

Titan oceans

ALIEN OCEAN  Hydrocarbon seas on Titan, seen in this radar map from the Cassini probe, might help cycle methane through the environment, similar to the hydrological cycle on Earth.

JPL-Caltech/NASA, ASI, USGS

Beneath the orange haze cloaking Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, it’s raining methane.