New research has revealed that the lakes and streams and rivers of hydrocarbons on Saturn's moon Titan actually have waves (real small ones) and currents (caused by proximity to the big planet with the rings).
The researchers used Cassini radar data, but used a different method to analyze it, utilizing signals received on Earth.
How clever of them (I am indeed impressed).
Saturn's moon Titan has bad surfing
The blue areas in the image below are the methane/ethane lakes in the north polar region of the big moon.
If you want to jump right in (to the science), here's the paper reference: Surface properties of the seas of Titan as revealed by Cassini mission bistatic radar experiments
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