Titan's Age: Icy Moon Turns Out Younger Than Thought ⚡ экспресс
Original: "A youthful Titan implied by improved impact simulations"
Impact modeling taking crust composition into account shows: Titan's surface renews every 300–340 million years.
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There are almost no craters on Titan, like on freshly fallen snow. Scientists have found that its icy crust renews itself every 300 million years—by cosmic standards, that's like yesterday. There might be hidden oceans or geysers erasing the impact scars.
🎯 It's so cold on Titan that water ice behaves like rock, and methane plays the role of water—there are lakes, rivers, and even methane rain.
🎬 In Kurt Vonnegut's novel "The Sirens of Titan", the moon appears as a mysterious world; the study confirms that its surface is indeed unusually young.