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Published online 21 January 2005 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news050117-14

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Titan reveals methane rain and rocks of water

A week's analysis confirms Earth-like features on saturnian moon.

Achim Schneider

Saturn's giant moon has rain and rivers very similar to those on Earth, the planetary probe Huygens has discovered. But on Titan they consist of liquid methane rather than water.

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