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NASA Images Give New View of a Saturn Moon

The New York Times: A few years ago, many planetary scientists entertained visions of Titan, a Saturn moon, awash in oceans — not of water, but of ethane, a hydrocarbon gas that can condense to liquid at the surface, where the temperatures average minus-290 degrees Fahrenheit.

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