Saturn's largest moon Titan is an intriguing world that looks a bit like Earth but not quite so.
, on other celestial bodies where liquid oceans are internal, such as on Titan, tidal motions are influenced by other forces. These primarily include the subsurface ocean's depth and the presence of an outer ice shell that presses down on the internal ocean, creating tides and currents and the gyres that drive them.
"The stiffness of the ice creates a new ice [and] ocean wave mode that can travel faster than the ocean waves without ice," Tyler wrote."It also creates dispersion . [Then], the viscosity of the ice layer damps the waves."
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