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Titan
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How do scientists determine that Titan has lakes and seas of methane?
They use radar, infrared observations, and measurements from the Cassini mission. Titan’s surface is cold enough for liquid methane and ethane to exist there.
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Whose spacecraft first reached the surface of Titan and sent data from another moon in the outer Solar System?
That was the Huygens probe, carried by Cassini and developed by ESA. It landed on Titan in 2005 and returned the first data from the surface of that moon.
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Whose spacecraft first confirmed the presence of methane lakes on Titan?
That evidence came from NASA's Cassini mission in the 2000s. Cassini and its radar data showed lakes and seas of liquid methane and ethane on Titan.
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