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Saturn’s moon Titan has liquid methane lakes and seas.
Titan is the only body in our solar system besides Earth known to have stable liquid on its surface. However, instead of water, its lakes and seas are filled with liquid hydrocarbons like methane and ethane. It even has a methane cycle similar to Earth's water cycle, with methane rain and rivers.
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Some planets orbit their stars in figure-eight patterns.
In binary star systems, planets can follow complex figure-eight orbital patterns due to the gravitational influence of both...
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Jupiter’s moon Io has lakes of liquid sulfur.
Due to intense tidal heating from Jupiter, Io has lakes of molten sulfur on its surface that can...
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There’s a planet where it snows titanium dioxide.
On Kepler-13Ab, a planet 1,730 light-years from Earth, it snows titanium dioxide - the same compound used in...