From Space:
Nearly 20 years ago, the Cassini probe and its Huygens lander peeked under the hazy atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon Titan and gave us our first glimpse of the moon's familiarly strange surface. Cassini-Huygens found that noxious liquids like methane and ethane form a very Earthlike patchwork of streams, rivers, and even seas as large as the Great Lakes. Now, scientists poring over imagery from Cassini have determined that Titan may very well have another thing familiar to Earth's mariners: waves. Those scientists believe those waves may be responsible for eroding and reshaping Titan's lakeshores. (Read more.)
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