Picture yourself standing on the shore of a frozen lake. You barely feel a breeze on your face, yet in front of you, enormous waves three meters tall roll slowly toward you. You’re not on Earth. You’re on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon.

This is the fascinating scenario described by new research published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, led by a team at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) in collaboration with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.