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New study models suggest that Titan lakes have eruption craters.


Saturn's satellite is a methane-filled lake on Titan.This lake is surrounded by steep rims reaching hundreds of feet high, NASA has detected it by the Cassini spacecraft, the spacecraft used radar data, and some  Long ago, in recently published research, it was reported that basins have formed in the lunar crust due to warming nitrogen explosions.
Titan is a satellite that we know as a stable liquid on the surface, it is like the Earth.Titan's clouds are methane and ethane - hydrocarbons, but behave as liquids in Titan's frenzied climate.Here is nothing like raining water and lakes and seas.

To If Titan's lakes originate, and most current models show methane in the liquid, which dissolves the base of ice and solid organic compounds, if the reservoirs are filled with liquid, then a type of lake on Titan  Can be originated, which may have sharp boundaries.  The bodies formed by the Earth are made of water, dissolving the limestone around them, and are known as karstic lakes.  At the same time, a new study of some small lakes found that it heats liquid nitrogen pockets in Titan's crust, and it turns into explosive gas, blowing the craters with this explosion, causing the liquid to fill with methane The new theory explains why some small lakes near Titan's North Pole, such as the Winnipeg Lecce, appear in radar imaging.

Researchers have collected radar data by the Cassini Saturn Orbiter, which in this radar data suggests that the karstic fits with the lake basin.In fact, their morphology was more consistent with an eruption crater, and where the rim is formed by material emanating from the crater. 

ethane has acted as a greenhouse gas in the atmosphere over the Arbo years for years on Titan, and it keeps the Moon relatively warm, and is still cold by Earth's standards.
 Cassini scientist and co-author Jonathan Lunin of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, believes that during the colder periods, nitrogen dominates the atmosphere, and that it is collected through the icy crust to gather in the pool just below the surface  It rains. 

Researchers stated that "this with steep ridges, ramparts and embossed, rims would be a sign of periods in Lake Titan's history when there was liquid nitrogen on the surface and in the crust.They also believe that localized warming is liquid nitrogen.Will be enough to turn into vapor, and it will spread quickly, and this Karana will blow out a crater.

JPL's Cassini Project Scientist Linda Spilker has stated that "there is a completely different explanation for the rims standing around those small lakes, which are a kind of tremendous puzzle, as scientists continue to search for the treasure of Cassini data, their  That is to say, we will put more and more pieces of the puzzle together, and in the following decades, we will understand Saturn's satellite better.  

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