HomelandRivers and tributaries on Saturn’s moon “Titan” will help NASA ‘s next lunar mission learn more about its geography and whether it has the potential to support life, a new study has found.

A team led by astronomers at Cornell University looked at a map of Titan’s rivers and tributaries and decided that river shapes could provide additional information about how deep they were or what had happened in the area.

They also found that the images they used to read Titan reduce the intensity of the drain, which could show how it works on a distant moon.

The channel systems are at the center of Titan’s sedimentary transport paths, study co – editor Alex Hayes said in a statement. It provides an explanation of how organic matter depends on Titan’s surface, and identifies tectonic features or material accumulations near volcanoes.

Also, in 2018, scientists found evidence of the existence of a 4,000-mile-wide “ice corridor” on Titan, which may be evidence of ancient volcanic activity.

Since it is known that only liquids (other than Earth) on the surface of the solar system contain titan, it is important to understand the sedimentary transport system and how rivers function in order to understand the geography of the Moon.

“Furthermore, these materials can be sent into Titan’s liquid water inland or mixed with liquid water carried to the surface,” Hayes added.

Researchers have studied the “Titan” rivers by looking at ground-based radar images of rivers in places such as Alaska, Quebec and Bilbara in Western Australia.

They compared it to radar images taken by NASA’s moon’s Cassini spacecraft, before it deliberately sank into Saturn in September 2017.

In doing so, they were able to understand the limitations of the Cassini database and what to read further before traveling to Dragonfly.

Julia Miller, the lead author of the study, said: “Despite the quality and quantity of Cassini’s films, [الرادار ذي الفتحة الاصطناعية] This places significant limitations on its use in the study of river systems, and it can still be used to understand the basics of Titan.

Titan is known to have a Mars-like landscape, with scientists mapping the icy moon in 2019 (using data from the Cassini spacecraft) to reveal terrain filled with mountains, lakes, plains, valleys, and “maze landscapes.”

Unlike Earth, Titan’s liquids are in the form of methane and ethane, not water.

In some parts of Titan, especially in the Arctic, methane lakes are more than 300 feet deep.

However, Titan, the second largest moon in the Solar System after Canyme, is known to have a thick crust made of water ice.

Gaining a better understanding of Titan’s hydrological system can provide astronomers with insight into how it differs from Earth’s.

“Studying Titan’s hydrological system sets an excellent example comparable to Earth’s hydrological system – the only example we can seriously look at how the planetary landscape develops in the absence of vegetation,” Hayes added.

Dragonfly was originally scheduled to launch in 2026, but postponed the release date of the “Covit-19” epidemic to 2027.

This study was published in Planetary Science.

Source: (Dinamalar)