Does Titan have an ocean?

Question

Does Titan have an ocean?

Answer 1

Yes, indeed.

Answer 2

Well, an "ocean" is a matter of opinion... it does have some large lakes, but an ocean is considered to be a body of fluid (on Titan, it's not water) that covers a fair continuous percentage of a planet... in my opinion, they're lakes.  

Answer 3

Well, there are hydrocarbon lakes, detected by RADAR.  But i wouldn't call something the size of even Lake Superior an ocean.  Perhaps an inland sea.

Yet there is another curious feature of Titan.  When Cassini does a Titan flyby and gets new RADAR data, the positions of overlapping features from previous passes don't line up, exactly. It shifts in semi random directions. That's because the core of Titan is not bound exactly to the surface of Titan.  It appears the the entire surface is floating on some fluid, possibly water.  A subsurface ocean. So the surface can get blown around by the winds that circle the planet - i mean moon.

Titan isn't just cold.  Titan is a really cool place.

Answer 4

scientists suggest that the ice, called a ‘clathrate hydrate’, forms a crust above an ocean of liquid water mixed with ammonia.

Answer 5

Yes, oceans and oceans of liquid hydrocarbons... don't light a match.

Cassini-Huygens proved without a doubt that lakes of liquid methane exist on Titan during its observations of the moon in 2007 and 2008 using radar and its infrared mapping spectrometer.