Why Titan May Be the Strangest World in the Solar System
Titan is a world of haunting familiarity and profound strangeness. It is the only other place in the solar system with liquid lakes and seas on its surface, but these are filled with methane and ethane, not water . Its rocks are made of water ice, frozen harder than granite. With an atmosphere rich in organic molecules, Titan may hold a prebiotic chemistry reminiscent of early Earth, yet its alien rivers and methane rain make it an eerily beautiful, truly unique world
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