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Published online 8 June 2005 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news050606-10
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Titan disappoints ocean hunters
Saturnian moon has no seas, but may well be volcanically active.
Although pictures of Titan seem to show rivers, deltas and oceans, Saturn's giant moon is as dry as a bone, scientists say.
Researchers know that the moon has methane in its atmosphere, and they had speculated that this came from fumes evaporating from giant lakes of hydrocarbons.
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