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Cassini Spots Lunar Lakes of Liquid Gas

The Cassini spacecraft has discovered three lakes near the south pole of Saturn's moon Titan. The strange bodies are filled not with water but with liquid methane and ethane. Methane also drizzles from the sky on Titan.

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