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Did you know that Saturn’s moon Titan has volcanoes that spurt water?
Warm is a subjective term on Titan, where the average temperature is -290 degrees Fahrenheit (-179 degrees Celsius). One measure of the cold there is its volcanoes. While those on Earth spew molten rock, liquid water streams from Titan’s volcanoes.
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Could there be ice on the moon?
A team of British researchers thinks so, and theorizes that the water could be put to use by residents of a future permanent lunar base.
Poring over data from NASA’s 1998 Lunar Prospector probe, the Durham University scientists found that hydrogen on the moon tends to be concentrated in dark craters near the lunar poles — exactly where you’d expect water, permanently shielded from the sun’s rays by the crater walls, to stay frozen.
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