Seems strange to me that this moon’s liquid bodies wouldn’t be affected by Saturn’s gravitational pull.
Our moon, much less in size, has quite a pull on our oceans.
Granted, the lake bodies here don’t have that large of waves though. Course Saturn is considerably larger than the earth if my memory is accurate.
Seems strange to me that this moon’s liquid bodies wouldn’t be affected by Saturn’s gravitational pull.
Course Saturn is considerably larger than the earth if my memory is accurate.
A tidal bulge on Titan induced by the gravity of Saturn wouldn't result in waves and it wouldn't result in inundation of low lying land through a phenomenon like the Bay of Fundy because Titan's rotational period is exactly equal to its orbit around Saturn. Any waves would be due to wind and that would be due to variations in insolation, not to constant gravitation.
Titan has other features like the moon experiences “seasons” not like the ones on Earth.It “rains” but the droplets are twice the size of Earth and its made of organic molecules. There are “volcanoes” but they do not spew out lava but methane. That suggests that it has a warm interior because of the gravitational pull of Saturn and its moons. This is what Earth would be like in cryogenic suspension.