Saturn's moons are cool.
But the coolest part about Titan: Huge lakes made up of liquid methane and hydrocarbons. The stuff rains down from sky. Flows into rivers.
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this is a lake on titan. It's bigger than Lake Huron and Michigan combined. And it's likely filled with liquid methane or something similarpic.twitter.com/zqIw1bU2TQ
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If we could invade, err, visit Titan, we'd find more fuel than what's currently on the Earthhttps://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24754-astrophile-titan-lake-has-more-liquid-fuel-than-earth/ …
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The Saturn system is kind of like a mini solar system. Has variety of worlds that inform us abt the diversity of planets in the universe
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In Saturn's rings, you can even see the beginnings of tiny new worlds forminghttps://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/jpl/pia21433/cassini-targets-a-propeller-in-saturns-a-ring …
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If we can find a geographic feature that exists in our solar system, it also means we may find it in the great "out there" of the universe
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Anyway: that's why the Cassini mission and Juno (at Jupiter) are so cool. They let us know what's possible out there.
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I'll leave you with Pan, a Saturn moon that's shaped like a dumpling / ravioli / pierogi / whatever stuffed dough thing you love the mostpic.twitter.com/tDIc0tEv2d
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^ this tweetstorm is what happens when you've been researching space and have a pandora station that's 50% hans zimmer
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