Saturn's moon Titan runs the same weather cycle as Earth — clouds, rain, rivers and seas — except the liquid doing all the work is methane, and the bedrock underfoot is water frozen at nearly minus 180 degrees, harder than most stone on Earth
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- Even at noon Titan sits in permanent dusk: distance and thick haze together leave barely a thousandth of Earth's sunlight at the surface — about as dim as Earth ten minutes after sunset, a golden gloom that never lifts Space Daily · 24d ago
- Titan's resources could support future deep space missions, scientists say Mid-day · 24d ago broke it first
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