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Life Without Water?

Topic: Titan | 03/ 18/ 10

On Saturn’s giant moon Titan, it is so cold that water is frozen as hard as granite. And yet there is a complete liquid cycle of methane and ethane. Scientists wonder whether there could also be life.

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When the Cassini-Huygens mission parted Titan's smoggy veil, it revealed a familiar and yet utterly ... more

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Researchers have gathered this week in wintery Wisconsin to test a robotic probe under ice. Astrobi... more

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In their explorations of Mars, both the Spirit and Opportunity rovers found evidence that liquid wat... more

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Video	03/17/10
	First Medley of WISE Pictures Some of the first images from NASA's recently launched Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer space tel... more