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Julian Dossett

There's liquid on Titan, Saturn's largest moon. But something's missing and scientists are confused

An infrared view of a moon showing surface details through the haze of its atmosphere.

Scientists have known for a while that Saturn's largest moon, Titan, has rivers and seas of liquid methane on its surface. But it's strangely lacking in deltas, a new study suggests.

On Earth, large rivers create deltas with sediment-filled wetlands. Deltas form when the mouth of a river empties into another body of water. Besides Earth, Titan is the only planetary body in our solar system with liquid flowing on the surface.

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