The Disappearing Act on Saturn’s Largest Moon
Astronomers hope a final Cassini flyby will solve a mystery in one of Titan's lakes.
by Marina Koren
Apr 19, 2017
2 minutes
In the summer of 2014, Jason Hofgartner and his professors at Cornell University were looking at radar images of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, when they noticed something strange. The bright spots they had seen just a year before inside Ligeia Mare, a large lake in the moon’s northern region, were no longer there.
The features, imaged by the Cassini spacecraft, had
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