All Questions
2
questions
10
votes
2
answers
340
views
How do we know the hydrocarbon lakes on Titan are actually liquid?
Cassini failed to detect any waves in the seas/lakes it observed, despite winds of 72 km/h (45 mph) being present on Titan which are able to create "sand" dunes from frozen particles, and ...
- 345
10
votes
2
answers
3k
views
Why do certain moons have their rotational period equal to their orbital period?
Our moon and Saturn's moon, Titan, have this feature. Because of this we only observe one side (hemispere) of our moon. Why is this? What is the Newtonian or astrophysics that would explain this? ...
- 367