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Saturn's moon Titan is so large it outsizes the planet Mercury, making it the second-biggest moon in the solar system after Jupiter's Ganymede
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Later this decade NASA plans to launch Dragonfly, a car-sized nuclear-powered drone that will fly from site to site across Saturn's moon Titan - the only world besides Earth with rivers, lakes and rain, though there the rain is liquid methane
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Scientists think it rains diamonds inside Saturn, with roughly 1,000 tons forming each year as lightning storms shatter methane into carbon soot, which the planet's crushing pressure compresses into gems before they sink toward a possible ocean of liquid diamond at the core
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How did a moon smaller than Mars end up with rivers, rainfall and lakes without a single drop of water in any of them?
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On Saturn's moon Titan, molecules that chemistry says should never mix are mixing — NASA and Chalmers University researchers found that at minus 183 degrees Celsius, substances as incompatible as water and oil can dissolve into each other
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In March 2025, astronomers confirmed 128 new moons around Saturn in a single day, nearly doubling its count to 274 — more moons than every other planet in the solar system combined
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Titan's gravity is so weak and its atmosphere so dense that human-powered flight through its sky isn't science fiction — the same physics that would let a person glide there also lets spacecraft descend onto it more gently than almost anywhere else in the solar system, even though the surface sits nearly 100 degrees Celsius below Antarctica's coldest recorded temperature
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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
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Titan is the only place beyond Earth where a spacecraft has landed on a surface with liquid nearby, and the probe sent back the sound of alien wind before falling silent forever
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Saturn has a six-sided storm system wider than Earth, and scientists still cannot fully explain why its perfect shape refuses to disappear
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Titan may have formed in a giant impact between ancient Saturn moons
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Airbus ready to build two new European fighters if countries want
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Titan interior study points to thick slushy ice shell instead of global ocean
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Enceladus waves shape Saturn space weather
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