{"id":213790,"date":"2024-03-15T19:32:45","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T19:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/15\/perfectly-straight-ridges-may-cover-the-poles-of-saturns-moon-titan\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:20:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:20:34","slug":"perfectly-straight-ridges-may-cover-the-poles-of-saturns-moon-titan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/15\/perfectly-straight-ridges-may-cover-the-poles-of-saturns-moon-titan\/","title":{"rendered":"Perfectly straight ridges may cover the poles of Saturn\u2019s moon Titan"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Landforms called yardangs can form on Earth \u2013 and they might also be present on Saturn\u2019s moon Titan<\/p>\n

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Saturn\u2019s moon Titan may have strange features called yardangs all over its polar regions. Yardangs are long, perfectly straight ridges that form when erosion wears away strips of soft ground, and they could help us understand Titan\u2019s complex geology.<\/p>\n

Titan\u2019s upper latitudes are home to hundreds of strange lines that planetary scientists have named bright linear features. Those could be either sand dunes<\/a>,<\/u> which astronomers have already observed near\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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