“Dry Lake Beds” on Titan might have solved a decades-old mystery
It appears that the astronomers were looking at the equator when they were actually present near the Polar region
Titan has long fascinated the astronomers for being the only other celestial body in our solar system to have liquid bodies on its surface — albeit not water. The two-decade-old mysterious bright spots on Saturn’s largest moon Titan might be close to resolution. A novel study now suggests that these peculiar flat regions could be the dry floors of ancient lakes and seas. This discovery could have bold implications for the existence of extraterrestrial life in our star system.
Earlier last month, astronomers seemed to have found evidence of rivers that flowed on the surface of Mars billions of years ago. Apart from us getting closer to finding out the existence of other life-supporting exoplanets, these discoveries in our own solar system might resolve the mystery of whether life ever existed or exists elsewhere other than our own planet.
Almost two decades ago, astronomers discovered bright radio signals — using Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, the Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia, and later the Cassini spacecraft. Initially, researchers hypothesized that these bright flashes were…
