A new study suggests that the planet’s icy interior and liquid ocean could be insulated with a three-to-six-mile-thick layer of methane clathrate, which is solid water ice with methane gas trapped in ...

The thickness of the methane clathrate crust, when viewed in the light of the topography of Titan, means that the Saturnian moon's interior is likely warm and flexible rather than cold and rigid ...

The thickness of the methane-rich crust could also suggest that Titan's interior was insulated ... and below the arctic seafloor. Titan, the moon of the second-largest planet in our solar system ...

The second-largest moon in our solar system may have a secret ... “Methane clathrates keep Titan’s interior warm, helping keep the subsurface liquid water ocean from freezing and promoting ...

In an interview with O GLOBO, Brazilian geologist and astronomer discusses Titan, the target of a mission involving a drone ...

Arguably the most fascinating moon in the Solar System is the Saturn ... “The methane clathrate crust warms Titan’s interior and causes surprisingly rapid topographic relaxation, which results ...

Titan is a moon, but it is more similar to Earth than any other planetary ... "The methane clathrate crust warms Titan's ...

This insulating crust may keep the moon's interior warm, suggesting an environment that could support life. If life exists in ...

Newly published research is upending previous thinking about the geology of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, suggesting it possesses a crust of methane-rich ice that may help warm its interior and could ...

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The moon’s surface is composed of solid water ice ... be making them become shallower and disappear relatively quickly.” Proposed diagram of Titan’s interior (not to scale), showing a methane ...