Sinkholes, tectonics may have shaped Titan’s lakes and seas
Map of Saturn’s largest moon reveals clues about landscape
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TITAN TECTONICS Titan remains mysterious but this new mosaic image suggests that tectonic activity and sinkholes created seas and lakes (blue-black) near the moon’s north pole. Using radar data collected by the Cassini spacecraft, scientists pieced together this picture of Saturn’s largest moon.
JPL-Caltech/NASA, ASI, USGS