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The northern and southern hemispheres of Titan pictured in the mosaic above reveal the great disparity between the abundance of lakes in the north and their paucity in the south. Researchers have offered a new explanation for the asymmetry, suggesting it is related to the eccentricity of the orbit of Saturn—and hence of Titan, its satellite—around the sun. (Credit: NASA/JPL/Caltech/Univ. of Arizona/Cassini Imaging Team)
CALTECH (US)—The eccentricity of Saturn’s orbit around the sun may be responsible for the unusually uneven distribution of lakes over the northern and southern polar regions of the planet’s largest moon, Titan. Continue…
