The icy shell of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, may possibly contain a six-mile-thick layer of methane ice beneath its surface ...

A new study suggests that the planet’s icy interior and liquid ocean could be insulated with a three-to-six-mile-thick layer of methane clathrate, which is solid water ice with methane gas trapped in ...

Methane clathrate, or "methane hydrate," is a solid compound in which a large amount of methane is trapped within the crystalline structure of water, creating a solid similar to ice. Considering ...

In research published Sept. 30 in The Planetary Science Journal, a University of Hawaii-led team modeled the potential for methane clathrate (a kind of methane-infused water ice) in the crust of ...

"Using this modeling approach, we were able to constrain the methane clathrate crust thickness to 5 to 10 kilometers [about 3 to 6 miles] because simulations using that thickness produced crater ...

"Using this modeling approach, we were able to constrain the methane clathrate crust thickness to five to ten kilometers [about three to six miles] because simulations using that thickness ...

This allowed them to test how much the surface of Saturn's largest moon would relax and rebound after an asteroid impact if its icy shell were coated with an insulating layer of methane clathrate.

A new study suggests that the planet’s icy interior and liquid ocean could be insulated with a three-to-six-mile-thick layer of methane clathrate, which is solid water ice with methane gas ...

This allowed them to test how much the surface of Saturn's largest moon would relax and rebound after an asteroid impact if its icy shell were coated with an insulating layer of methane clathrate.