Scientists have calculated the height of the waves in the waters of Saturn’s moon

The small size of the waves on the surface of the water will make it easier to find life through landers.

French scientists calculated the height of the waves in the waters of Titan, the largest moon of Saturn. A study published in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters.

The wave height reaches 1 cm, length — 20 centimeters. Perturbations are formed in the lakes of liquid methane and ethane. To such conclusions experts have come, analyzing the data radar studies of the moon of Saturn, Cassini carried out a station, and constructing a computer model that describes the formation of waves in the lakes of Titan.

Scientists believe that the small size of the waves on the surface of the water will make it easier to find life through landers.

Titan one and a half times larger than the moon in diameter and almost doubled in weight. In the atmosphere of Saturn, like the Earth, dominated by nitrogen. In the gas shell of Titanium accounts for up to 95 percent of the volume. This celestial body, beside the Earth, is the only object in the Solar system, the surface of which there is a liquid consisting of hydrocarbons (mainly methane and ethane).

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