Kraken Mare

The Kraken Mare is a Methansee on Saturn's moon Titan. It should be an area of ​​approximately 400,000 square kilometers larger than the Caspian Sea. It is the largest known lake of this moon and is located at 68 ° N / 310 ° W west of Ligeia Mare in the North Pole region. Recent measurements confirm the lake nature by measuring the reflectance of the surface.

He was discovered by the Cassini spacecraft in 2007 and in 2008 after the Kraken, a legendary sea monster in Norway, named.

An island in the lake was named Mayda Insula.

As part of the planned tandem (Titan and Enceladus Mission ) of the ESA and NASA, which 2020Vorlage year: should / start future in 5 years, a lander is provided, which in 2030 is scheduled to land on the Kraken Mare, inter alia its composition and depth to determine exactly.

The Kraken Mare on a mosaic of radar images the Cassini spacecraft