Titan’s Xanadu Seen by Cassini’s Radar
The Cassini spacecraft shines radio waves towards its large moon Titan on some of the craft’s dozens of close flybys of Titan. The Cassini RADAR experiment measures the reflected radio waves to produce a radio wave picture. Check out this newly released RADAR view of Titan’s fancifully named Xanadu region. Titan may have seeping creeks or rivers and possibly lakes of liquid methane (also known as natural gas - the stuff cow’s produce and that you use to cook spaghetti) in the dark, smooth areas in Xanadu.
July 20th, 2006 at 11:13 pm
Thank you for sharing this type of research with the
“commun de mortels” as myself.
These are neat pictures.