How Does Titan Still Have an Atmosphere?

From what we know about Titan, it seems like its atmosphere should have disappeared millions of years ago. So, why hasn’t it? Hosted by: Reid Reimers SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Silas Emrys, Charles Copley, Drew Hart, Jeffrey Mckishen, James Knight, Christoph Schwanke, Jacob, Matt Curls, Christopher R Boucher, Eric Jensen, Lehel Kovacs, Adam Brainard, Greg, GrowingViolet, Ash, Laura Sanborn, Sam Lutfi, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, charles george, Alex Hackman, Chris Peters, Kevin Bealer ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.space.com/43120-where-does-titan-atmosphere-come-from.html https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aaf561/pdf https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiecartereurope/2019/04/30/welcome-to-titan-saturns-deranged-earth-like-moon-beginning-to-show-signs-of-life/?sh=9c40a21f1a6a https://astronomy.com/news/2019/04/surprise-4000-mile-ice-corridor-found-on-saturns-moon-titan https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-019-0756-5 https://www.psi.edu/epo/faq/atmosphere.html https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11543520/ https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/moons/saturn-moons/titan/in-depth/ https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/media/methane20060302.html https://www.nature.com/articles/nature04497?cacheBust=1510024227952 Images: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30903 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10659 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13640 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11339 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Moons_of_solar_system_v7.jpg https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20311 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ammonia-3D-balls-A.png https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/return-of-halleys-comet https://www.nasa.gov/rosetta/videos https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13693 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12346 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13194 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12467 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11371 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13562


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