Welcome to Titan’s lake district. Situated near the moon’s north pole, this region of the alien world might seem quite familiar if you were to visit. Some of the lakes on Titan are at least 100 metres deep, while their neighbours are phantom lakes that drain and refill over time, as shallow lakes do in Earth’s deserts.
“The lakes and seas have very similar composition,” says Marco Mastrogiuseppe at California Institute of Technology. “This is different than…