A latest study suggested that Saturn's large moon Titan is home to surprisingly deep canyons packed with liquid hydrocarbons.

Researchers said that the recently found Titan canyons are nearly 1,870 feet deep and have slopes at least 40 degrees steep, though are quite narrow, with at most widths of nearly 0.5 miles.

The latest discovery has further cemented the fascinating similarity between our planet and Titan, the sole two worlds in the solar system known to host stable liquid on their surfaces. Just like Earth, Titan also possessed thick nitrogen dominated atmosphere.

In a statement, study co-author Alex Hayes, a Cassini radar team associate at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, said, “Earth is warm and rocky, with rivers of water, while Titan is cold and icy, with rivers of methane. And yet it's remarkable that we find such similar features on both worlds”.

The study team, headed by Valerio Poggiali of the University of Rome, studied radar pictures of Titan clicked by NASA's Cassini spacecraft at the time of a close flyby of the 3,200-mile-wide moon in May 2013.

The imagery pointed towards a channel system draining into Ligeia Mare, a large hydrocarbon sea close to the north pole of Titan. Scientists used to think that some of such canyons could contain liquid, and the latest studied pictures have confirmed that suspicion, exposing a ‘glint’ characteristic of quite smooth surfaces.

During the pass in May 2013, Cassini took help of its radar instrument as an altimeter, letting Poggiali and his colleagues note down canyon depths, ranging from 790 feet all the way up to 1,870 feet, the deepest ever noted on the Saturn’s moon.

The team members mentioned that the canyons were likely carved by the landscape uplifting, fluctuations in the sea level or a blend of these two factors, both of which occur on our planet also.