Titan Ocean Floor

The real story behind the discovery of titanic s watery grave in 1985 a joint american french expedition tracked down one of the biggest prizes in maritime archeology.

Titan ocean floor. The finding appears in today s edition of the journal science. Data from nasa s cassini spacecraft have revealed saturn s moon titan likely harbors a layer of liquid water under its ice shell. The following features are shown at example depths to scale though each feature has a considerable range at which it may occur. Cassini s detection of large tides on titan leads to the almost inescapable conclusion that there is a hidden ocean at depth said luciano iess the paper s lead author and a cassini.

Continental shelf 300 feet continental slope 300 10 000 feet abyssal plain 10 000 feet abyssal hill 3 000 feet up from the abyssal plain seamount 6 000 feet. A series of five dives were completed this month by an exploration team from triton submarines to the spot 370 miles south of newfoundland canada and 4 000 meters below the surface where the ship. And then there are those arguing that regardless of how ship shape titanic is today committing to such a task would be highly unethical. A photograph depicting what a federal official claims to be human remains entombed in the mud surrounding the rms titanic s wreckage site has been released in its full form to the public for the first time saturday in time for the 100th anniversary of the sinking the associated press reports.