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Earth is not alone in the solar system in hosting rivers, lakes and seas. On Titan, the largest moon of Saturn , liquids sculpt its surface, except it's not water, but liquid hydrocarbons like ethane and methane. Titan has hundreds of timesreveals more about Titan’s bizarre bodies of water, including waves, currents, estuaries and straits.
So Titan is hardly Earth-like, though aerial and radar images of how the flow of liquid methane, rather than water, has sculpted its surface make it appear so.
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