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Titan's tides point to hidden ocean

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Nothing like it has been seen before beyond our own planet: large tides have been found on Saturn's moon Titan that point to a liquid ocean - most likely water - swirling around below the surface.

On Earth, we are familiar with the combined gravitational effects of the Moon and Sun creating the twice-daily tidal rise and fall of our oceans. Less obvious are the tides of a few tens of centimetres in our planet's crust and underlying mantle, which floats on a liquid core.

But now the international Cassini mission to Saturn has found that Titan experiences large egnkz mj ckv adbpbnk.

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