Scientist Lia Siegelman is using a surprising data source to study the ocean around Antarctica – one that has flippers and bears a passing resemblance to Jabba the Hut. Siegelman is using data from a single tagged southern elephant seal to study small-scale ocean features in a little-known part of the ocean around Antarctica. She…

On its final flyby of Saturn’s largest moon in 2017, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft gathered radardata revealing that the small liquid lakes in Titan’s northern hemisphere are surprisingly deep, perched atop hills and filled with methane.  The new findings, published April 15 in Nature Astronomy, are the first confirmation of just how deep some of Titan’s lakes…