A Vector Map of the Unnamed Methane Sea on Titan

Peter Minton is a California teacher who have sex to make transmitter function in his spare prison term . His favorite stead to represent are islands and coastlines , and so when the Cassini - Huygens probe sent back images from Saturn ’s moonshine Titan he was happy to name the geographical feature he loves most . There , on the celestial pole of Titan , was a ocean full of island . An unnamed methane sea , but still mappable using vectoring software . This is the function he created , with longitude and latitude lines .

Minton , whoalready make transmitter maps of the islands in this ocean , writes :

I go ahead and digitalise the shoreline of the unnamed methane sea . . . It is one of the large torso of liquidity known to exist on this moon of Saturn . This body of liquid methane , C2H6 and atomic number 7 is about the size of Lake Superior .

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The intrepid map afficionado at Strange Maps blog adds :

The orange opaqueness of Titan ’s atmosphere reset the moon appear bigger than it actually is – astronomers have since distinguished between lasting cloud cover and surface , and downgrade it from the first- to the secondly - largest lunation in our system , after Jupiter ’s satellite Ganymede .

Not until the flyby , in 2004 , of the Cassini - Huygens mission could scientists confirm the conjecture , first conflagrate by both Voyager missions and then heightened by Hubble observation , that Titan is the only heavenly body ( save Earth ) to contain large liquid surfaces – or ocean , as non - astronomers would call them . For they seem a bit too diminished to be labelled oceans .

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These ocean , or lakes , most in all probability comprise of methane or another hydrocarbon , can be see onthis pageof the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena .

This ocean is one of the few unnamed large body of liquid state in the solar system . What should we name it ?

EVS - Islands[viaStrange Maps ]

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