A dense network of small rivers or swampy areas appears to connect some of the seas on Saturn's moon Titan, as seen in this comparison of data of the same area from two instruments on NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Images from the radar instrument are on the left and images from the visual and infrared mapping spectrometer (VIMS) are on the right.
At approximately 50,000 square miles (about 125,000 square kilometers), Ligeia Mare (middle of the images) is larger than any North American lake. The labels K1, K2, and K3 in the radar mosaic (a) refer to different parts of Kraken Mare that appear interconnected in the VIMS mosaic (b).
Photo credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
Note: For more information, see Titan's Methane: Going, Going, Soon to Be Gone?
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