Scientists are puzzling over the huge amounts of ice on Saturn's biggest moon

Saturn's moon Titan.
(Image credit: NASA)

Years after NASA's Cassini spacecraft finished its mission to observe Saturn, we're still learning more from the data it sent back. This time, new analysis reveals something we've never noticed before from Titan, the largest moon that orbits our sixth planet.

The research, published on Monday in Nature Astronomy, suggests that Titan doesn't just have ice in scattered patches along its surface, as we've observed before. Beyond that, scientists discovered a massive block that stretches across a large part of the satellite: nearly 4,000 miles long.

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Shivani is the editorial assistant at TheWeek.com and has previously written for StreetEasy and Mic.com. A graduate of the physics and journalism departments at NYU, Shivani currently lives in Brooklyn and spends free time cooking, watching TV, and taking too many selfies.