PIA16634: Floating Ice on Titan Lakes?
 Target Name:  Titan
 Mission:  Cassini-Huygens
 Spacecraft:  Cassini Orbiter
 Product Size:  1696 x 1272 pixels (w x h)
 Produced By:  JPL
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This artist's concept envisions what hydrocarbon ice forming on a liquid hydrocarbon sea of Saturn's moon Titan might look like. A new model from scientists on NASA's Cassini mission suggests that clumps of methane-and-ethane-rich ice -- shown here as the lighter-colored clusters -- could float under some conditions.

The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, DC. The Cassini orbiter was designed, developed and assembled at JPL.

For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission, visit http://www.nasa.gov/cassini and http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech/USGS

Image Addition Date:
2013-01-08