Saturn’s largest moon Titan apparently has a massive corridor of ice-rich bedrock that wraps nearly halfway around it.

????3(*VO-Still)??Courtesy - NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute??On screen - Taking up the equivalent of 40% of Titan’s overall circumference??The long expanse of ice stretches 3,900 miles, taking up the equivalent of 40% of Titan’s overall circumference.

????4(*VO-Video)TC :40??Courtesy - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory ??Crop out text??The discovery was published in Nature Astronomy and researchers say that it doesn’t really correlate with any surface features.

????2(*VO-Video)TC :34??Courtesy - NASA??They looked at thousands of images taken by the Cassini space probe to look as deep as they could through Titan’s thick haze.

????2(*VO-Video)TC 1:44??Courtesy - NASA??On screen - Titan is believed to be covered in organic sediment??Scientists say what’s strangest about the formation is that it even exists at all since Titan is believed to be covered in organic sediment.

????2(*VO-Still)??Courtesy - NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute??Caitlin Griffith from the University of Arizona says that it’s possible we are seeing a remnant frozen from a time when Titan was very different.??