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Titan's surface organics surpass oil reserves on Earth
02-13-2008 · European Space Agency (ESA)Saturn's orange moon Titan has hundreds of times more liquid hydrocarbons than all the known oil and natural gas reserves on Earth, according to new Cassini data. The hydrocarbons rain from the sky, collecting in vast deposits that form lakes and dunes.
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