Cassini ships Titan's signal to Earth

The Cassini cruise ship has flown across Titan, gathering information from the secret lakes on the moon and shooting radio signals over 1.4 billion kilometers to Earth.

In a sophisticated operation that took place about 1.4 billion kilometers ago, scientists from the US Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) bombarded radio signals to the lakes on Saturn's Titan moon. .

Titan is the only moon in the solar system with a special atmosphere - (Photo: NASA)

The analytical results in the form of signals are transmitted to the Deep Space Systems (DSN) stations on Earth, from which Earth experts will know the nature of the above lakes, to know whether they are made from liquid methane or something else.

The radio signals were transmitted from devices on the Cassini cruise ship, currently in orbit around Saturn, according to Phys.Org.

By the time the signaling operation was performed, Cassini was about 3,659 km from Saturn's surface and moved at nearly 6 km / sec.

Cassini, launched into space in 1997, arrived in Saturn's vicinity in 2004, and has since studied its giant planet with its moons.

Titan is Saturn's largest moon, especially attracting the attention of experts because it is the only moon in the solar system that has a dense atmosphere, as well as the only celestial body outside the Earth's reservoir and sea ​​on the surface.

However, these lakes / seas do not contain water, because the average temperature on Titan surface is about -180 degrees C, so the water only exists in the form of ice.