Does Saturns Moon Titan have Liquid Seas?
Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, does have some liquid seas, near its north pole – the only other stable liquid seas in the entire solar system besides Earth. But don’t change into your bathing suit just yet, as these seas are filled with hydrocarbons, primarily liquid methane or ethane. The largest of these seas which has been definitively confirmed is about the size of Lake Superior. One possible sea is several times larger, approaching the size of the Caspian sea. Drainage channels and other telltale geographic features have been mapped as well. If Titan’s atmosphere had oxygen, a single match could could ignite an area hundreds or even thousands of square miles large, as hydrocarbons are flammable. Luckily, Titan’s atmosphere is 99.8% nitrogen. Titan is the only other rocky body in the solar system with an atmosphere composed of more than a few trace gases. The atmosphere is so thick, and the gravity so low, that a human being with wings strapped to their arms would be able to fly thr
