Sentences with phrase «kraken mare»
The altimetry data for the area in and around Kraken Mare also showed relatively steep slopes leading down to the sea, which also suggests the Kraken Mare might indeed be quite deep.
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After recently discovering what is thought to be the largest body of water on Saturn's Titan moon, NASA is considering options to send an autonomous submarine under the surface of Titan's Kraken Mare Ocean.
Its largest sea, Kraken Mare, experiences up to a metre of tidal change each day.
In a handful of flybys of Titan in the past 6 months, Cassini scientists have seen signs of waves on three different seas: Kraken Mare, Ligeia Mare, and Punga Mare.
At Kraken Mare, however, Cassini researchers detected a wavelike feature with both the spacecraft's radar and a mapping spectrometer.
The maximum depth of Kraken Mare appears to be 160 meters, and Ligeia Mare could be as much as 200 meters deep, reported Marco Mastrogiuseppe of Sapienza University of Rome.
But Hayes presented newly analyzed data from August 2014, when Cassini looked at Kraken Mare, the moon's largest northern sea, in radar and infrared wavelengths within two hours of each other.
Winds, waves and magic islands at Titan's largest sea: Kraken Mare.