As methane is broken down by light-induced chemical reactions over a timescale of tens of millions of years, it can't just be a remnant of the atmosphere present when Titan itself was formed, and it must be replenished quite regularly. -Gabriel Tobie

 

As methane is broken down by light-induced chemical reactions over a timescale of tens of millions of years, it can't just be a remnant of the atmosphere present when Titan itself was formed, and it must be replenished quite regularly.


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As methane is broken down by light-induced chemical reactions over a timescale of tens of millions of years, it can't just be a remnant of the atmosphere present when Titan itself was formed, and it must be replenished quite regularly.

Gabriel Tobie

Methane is only around for a short time geologically. The time scale is somewhere between 10 and 100 million years.

Gabriel Tobie