The briefing
A reanalysis of Cassini radio tracking data published in Nature indicates Titan’s tidal response lags Saturn’s, challenging the long-held view of a global subsurface ocean. The findings point to slushy layers or isolated water pockets instead, Space Daily reports.
Original headline
Titan was called an ocean world for more than fifteen years, but a reanalysis of Cassini's radio tracking published in Nature has quietly taken the ocean away — the moon's tidal response lags Saturn's