'At the edge of one of Titan's seas, we might see waves of liquid methane and ethane lapping on the shore,' a researcher said.
Enormous lakes and seas filled with liquid methane on the surface of Saturn's moon Titan may have been crafted by the power of waves.Titan is Saturn's largest moon and the second-largest moon in our solar system, after Jupiter's Ganymede, and is the only body in our solar system other than Earth to possess lakes, seas, and rivers—filled with methane and ethane rather than water.
The researchers modeled the ways that lakes erode on Earth—including wave erosion and 'uniform erosion' involving a coast passively dissolving or sloughing off—and then applied these methods to Titan's lakes.'We had the same starting shorelines, and we saw that you get a really different final shape under uniform erosion versus wave erosion,' Perron said.
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