A decade-old theory about a hidden ocean on Saturn's moon Titan is collapsing, replaced by a messier picture of slush and isolated water pockets that upends our understanding of where life might exist beyond Earth. The post Titan was called an ocean world for more than fifteen years, but a reanalysis of Cassini’s radio tracking published in Nature has quietly taken the ocean away — the moon’s tidal response lags Saturn’s pull by about fifteen hours, which fits slush and small pockets of warm water rather than a global sea appeared first on Space Daily .
Titan was called an ocean world for more than fifteen years, but a reanalysis of Cassini’s radio tracking published in Nature has quietly taken the ocean away — the moon’s tidal response lags Saturn’s pull by about fifteen hours, which fits slush and small pockets of warm water rather than a global sea