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Rivers on Saturn’s Moon Titan
July 22, 2012 | MIT

Rivers flowing on Saturn’s moon, Titan, operate in a very different environment than what we know on earth. Instead of water incising into rock, liquid methane is incising into water ice. How is that for an exotic environment?


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