Cassini finds tallest mountain on Saturn’s moon Titan
MAR 25, 2016
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.029691
Space.com : On Thursday at the annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in The Woodlands, Texas, NASA’s Cassini team announced that it had identified a 3337-m-high mountain on the surface of Titan, one of the moons of Saturn. Images from Cassini have revealed a number of 3000-m-plus mountains on the moon, mostly in equatorial regions, but the team believes this mountain will prove to be the tallest. The presence of such tall mountains suggests that the moon is tectonically active. That activity could be caused by the pull of Saturn’s gravity, the cooling of Titan’s crust, or variations in the moon’s rotation.
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