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Titan's lakes revealed
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post Jan 3 2007, 06:09 PM
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The January 4, 2007, issue of Nature has a paper by Stofan et al. and an accompanying News and Views piece by Christophe Sotin on Titan's lakes. See the Editor's Summary for a synopsis and links.

See also the related Space.com story.

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- AlexBlackwell   Titan's lakes revealed   Jan 3 2007, 06:09 PM
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- - ngunn   Well, in fact fluffy dunes are only a tentative su...   Mar 28 2007, 08:40 PM
|- - The Messenger   QUOTE (ngunn @ Mar 28 2007, 02:40 PM) Wel...   Mar 28 2007, 11:11 PM
|- - Juramike   QUOTE (ngunn @ Mar 28 2007, 04:40 PM) The...   Mar 29 2007, 08:21 PM
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|- - tty   QUOTE (rlorenz @ Apr 10 2007, 04:12 AM) ....   Apr 10 2007, 06:19 AM
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- - volcanopele   ??? I thought they were doing that for one of the...   Apr 10 2007, 06:11 PM
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|- - tty   QUOTE (Juramike @ Apr 12 2007, 11:22 PM) ...   Apr 12 2007, 09:59 PM
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|- - Juramike   QUOTE (rlorenz @ Apr 14 2007, 09:25 PM) O...   Apr 15 2007, 07:00 AM
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