A teacher from San Diego with a passion for mapping, Peter Minton, made a vector map for an area from Titan, Saturn’s satellite. The map represents a sea full of small islands, but, more importantly, the sea is made of liquid methane, ethane and nitrogen and is about the size of Lake Superior.
In 2004, the Cassini-Huygens mission confirmed the speculation that Titan is the only celestial body that contains large liquid surfaces, aside from Earth. Although they are the size of big lakes, they are commonly called seas, and this one hasn’t even been named already.
This supposition was so hard to confirm because of Titan’s cloud cover, which is hardly penetrated even by the sunlight. The average temperature on this moon is around -180°C (-290°F). With many features from Titan named years ago, it is expected that this unnamed sea to get its appellative soon.
