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Titan's methane should have been stripped away by sunlight within tens of millions of years — the fact that it persists after four billion years means something, possibly ice volcanoes venting from the interior, is still replenishing it, and no one yet knows what
What happened when engineers removed a century-old hydroelectric dam from a New England river, and Atlantic salmon returned to spawning grounds they had not reached in roughly 200 years?
On Titan, Saturn's largest moon, water is the bedrock — frozen to minus 179 degrees and harder than granite — and the rain, rivers and seas that run over it are not water at all but liquid methane, exactly as it comes out of a gas pipe
How does a soft-bodied ocean animal with no bones and no central command run its eight limbs semi-independently, keeping roughly two-thirds of its half-billion neurons out in the arms themselves?
