Sunlight glints off a lake near the north pole of Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, in this image from the Cassini spacecraft. The image confirmed the presence of lakes on Titan. Titan is so cold, however, that they are filled with liquid nitrogen or liquid methane instead of water. [NASA/JPL/SSI]
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