After sifting through data from one of the final Titan flybys of the Cassini mission, the researchers detailed their findings in “The Bathymetry of Moray Sinus at Titan’s Kraken Mare,” which published in the Journal of Geophysical Research. Far below the gaseous atmospheric shroud on Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, lies Kraken Mare, a sea of liquid methane. Cornell University astronomers have estimated that sea to be at least 1,000-feet deep near its center. A billion miles from Earth, frigid Titan is cloaked in a golden haze of gaseous nitrogen. The data for this discovery was gathered on Cassini’s T104 flyby of Titan on Aug. 21, 2014. While Cassini cruised at 13,000 mph nearly 600 miles above Titan’s surface, the spacecraft used its radar altimeter to measure the liquid depth at Kraken Mare and Moray Sinus, an estuary located at the sea’s northern end.
— source Cornell University | Jan 21, 2021