“¯\_(ツ)_/¯” – NASA on this thing.
Saturn has a moon called Titan, and Titan has a sea that something weird appears to be happening in.
Titan is the biggest of Saturn's moons. The sea, like the rest of the weather system on Titan, is made up of hydrocarbons – mostly ethane, methane, and propane – instead of water. But that's not the weird thing.
NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute / Via photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov
Astronomers have spotted a bright, mysterious object in the sea that was not there before.
You could *almost* say it looks like an island rising up from the sea. Perhaps that's why some scientists started calling it a "magic island".
NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASI/Cornell / Via photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov
Scientists were perplexed to find the feature had vanished when they looked again, over several months, with low-resolution radar and Cassini's infrared imager. This led some team members to suggest it might have been a transient feature. But during Cassini's flyby on August 21, 2014, the feature was again visible, and its appearance had changed during the 11 months since it was last seen.
Via jpl.nasa.gov
Or, it could be something even weirder. But probably not an island, even though it kind of looks that way.
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