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14 Titan has a liquid cycle

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Another weird moon in Saturn’s system is Titan, which hosts a liquid ‘cycle’ that moves material between the atmosphere and the surface. That sounds a lot like Earth’s water cycle, but Titan’s immense lakes are filled with liquid methane and ethane, possibly over a layer of water. Researcher­s hope to use data from the Cassini-Huygens mission to tease out some of Titan’s secrets before designing a submarine that might one day plumb the depths of the mysterious moon.

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