Vid Flumina

Vid Flumina
Physical characteristics
MouthLigeia Mare
Length>400 km[1]
Synthetic aperture radar image mosaic of Titan's north polar region

Vid Flumina is a river (termed Flumen) of liquid methane and ethane on Saturn's moon Titan. It is more than 400 km (249 mi) long and flows into Titan's second largest hydrocarbon sea, Ligeia Mare.[1] The surface of Titan is mostly water ice, so Vid Flumina is a river of methane and ethane flowing across and cutting canyons into ice as though it were bedrock. NASA scientists think that it likely has rapids, whirlpools and falls, just like rivers on Earth.

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference AGUcanyons was invoked but never defined (see the help page).