*They're not just random patches of fluid, they're connected. They share the same sea level.
Cassini, the gift that keeps on giving
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The new study suggests that elevation is important because Titan’s liquid bodies appear to be connected under the surface in something akin to an aquifer system at Earth. Hydrocarbons appear to be flowing underneath Titan’s surface similar to the way water flows through underground porous rock or gravel on Earth, so that nearby lakes communicate with each other and share a common liquid level.
The paper was based on data obtained by Cassini’s radar instrument until just months before the spacecraft burned up in the Saturn atmosphere last year. It also used a new topographical map published in the same issue of Geophysical Research Letters.
For more details on the two papers, visit:
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2018/01/saturns-moon-titan-sports-earth-features
