#solid water

Solid water, cake pop, nacho cheese Doritos, cool ranch Doritos, granola bar, and sparkling water..

very, very dumb. I just legit thought ‘BOY HOWDY wouldn't it be COOL if there was such a thing as solid water. wouldn't that be rad?!’ 

Titan travels around the Sun with Saturn at an average distance of about 1.4 billion kilometres, or 9.5 astronomical units.

NASA’s Titan facts page puts the consequence plainly: sunlight takes about 80 minutes to reach the moon and is roughly 100 times fainter there than at Earth.

The surface temperature sits near minus 179 degrees Celsius. At that temperature, familiar materials exchange roles.

Water is not merely frozen in the way a pond freezes during winter. It forms the solid crust, pebbles and much of the bedrock. Methane, which is a gas under ordinary conditions on Earth, can condense into liquid. Ethane can remain liquid too.

Titan also has the atmosphere needed to make a climate rather than a vacuum-driven freeze. It is about 95 per cent nitrogen and roughly 5 per cent methane near the surface, with a surface pressure around 60 per cent higher than Earth’s.

Methane’s melting point is close to Titan’s average surface temperature, so local temperature, pressure and composition matter. This is not a uniformly wet moon. The polar regions contain the large lakes and seas, while broad equatorial areas are dry enough to support enormous dunes.