Scientists measure changing lake depths on Titan

Thursday, July 15, 2010 - 03:35 in Earth & Climate

On Earth, lake levels rise and fall with the seasons and with longer-term climate changes, as precipitation, evaporation, and runoff add and remove liquid. Now, for the first time, scientists have found compelling evidence for similar lake-level changes on Saturn's largest moon, Titan -the only other place in the solar system seen to have a hydrological cycle with standing liquid on the surface.

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