Saturn’s weird moon Titan looks a bit like Earth, and scientists might finally know why

Titan is a moon on Saturn that looks a little bit like Earth and scientists have finally gotten a hypothesis as to why. When it comes to Titan, instead of having a majority of water like Earth, they are made of liquid methane. The theory that the scientists came up with is that sintering, wind and seasonal change all combined and that is why Titan looks like earth. Ooids were studied by the team which are a type of sediment that have a similar composition as Titan.

Key Takeaways:

• Titan features lakes and rivers of liquid methane, and dunes of hydrocarbons.
• Titan’s sediments are presumed to be fragile, and thus not capable of supporting such structures.
• A research team at Stanford University developed a theory to explain how Titan’s structures could have developed.

“For years, scientists have been stumped by how these landscapes came to be, given their un-Earth-like composition. But now they’ve determined a very plausible theory.”

Read more: https://www.space.com/study-explains-why-titan-looks-like-earth