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Cassini bounced radio waves off Titan’s three largest seas and found their open surfaces mirror-smooth, with roughness no greater than 3.3 millimetres RMS, while rougher estuaries hinted that methane-rich rivers were entering more ethane-rich seas

Keyword: Surface Roughness
Publisher: Space Daily
Published: Aug 6, 2026
Across four flybys in 2014 and 2016, Cassini aimed radio signals at Titans three largest seas so precisely that the reflections travelled onwards to a 70-metre receiving dish on Earth. The echoes wer… [+12584 chars]
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