Titan’s seas may be coated in organic goop that stops waves forming

NASA/JPL/University of Arizona/University of Idaho

By Leah Crane

The methane seas on Saturn’s largest moon are remarkably aloof, and it is a ways at risk of be on myth of a thin floating layer of natural gunk.

Titan’s thick atmosphere is stuffed with advanced natural compounds, which give it a determined orange shade. These compounds are continuously snowing down from the sky, coating the floor. Daniel Cordier on the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne and Nathalie Carrasco at University of Versailles Saint-Quentin in France calculated what this also can mean for the moon’s oceans.

They learned that a pair of of the …