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DRY LAND AND OCEANS DETECTED ON TITAN, A MOON OF SATURN
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New evidence suggests that Titan, a moon of Saturn, has both
dry land and oceans, making it the only known celestial body other
than Earth that has both.
It had been widely believed that Titan was uniformly submerged
under a mile-deep ocean of liquid ethane, a gaseous hydrocarbon
found in small amounts on Earth as a constituent of natural gas.
Radar measurements conducted by three astronomers at the
California Institute of Technology and one at Caltech's Jet
Propulsion La...
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SHADES OF EARTH IN TITAN'S LANDSCAPE PROBE UNCOVERS EVIDENCE OF RAIN, EROSION
The Boston Globe
; A European space probe to Saturn's largest moon has unveiled a startling Earthlike world of intricate river systems ... yesterday. In a scientific assessment of the Huygens probe's visit to Titan a week ago, researchers said it seems that the moon is being shaped today by liquid methane that falls from ...
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