• DOI:10.1038/nature05438
Corpus ID: 4370622

The lakes of Titan

@article{Stofan2007TheLO,
  title={The lakes of Titan},
  author={E. Stofan and C. Elachi and J. Lunine and R. Lorenz and B. Stiles and K. Mitchell and S. Ostro and L. Soderblom and C. Wood and H. Zebker and S. Wall and M. Janssen and R. Kirk and R. Lopes and F. Paganelli and J. Radebaugh and L. Wye and Y. Anderson and M. Allison and R. Boehmer and P. Callahan and P. Encrenaz and E. Flamini and G. Francescetti and Y. Gim and G. Hamilton and S. Hensley and W. Johnson and K. Kelleher and D. Muhleman and P. Paillou and G. Picardi and F. Posa and L. Roth and R. Seu and S. Shaffer and S. Vetrella and R. West},
  journal={Nature},
  year={2007},
  volume={445},
  pages={61-64}
}

• E. Stofan, C. Elachi, +35 authors R. West
• Published 2007
• Geology, Medicine
• Nature

The surface of Saturn’s haze-shrouded moon Titan has long been proposed to have oceans or lakes, on the basis of the stability of liquid methane at the surface. Initial visible and radar imaging failed to find any evidence of an ocean, although abundant evidence was found that flowing liquids have existed on the surface. Here we provide definitive evidence for the presence of lakes on the surface of Titan, obtained during the Cassini Radar flyby of Titan on 22 July 2006 (T16). The radar imaging… Expand

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