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Picture post: Light on a lake in space

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Released last week, this image from NASA shows sunlight reflecting off a lake on Saturn’s moon Titan.

Scientists working on the space agency’s Cassini probe have been after something like this for a while, as it confirms the previous evidence of liquid lakes of hydrocarbon on the moon.

“This one image communicates so much about Titan: thick atmosphere, surface lakes and an otherworldliness,” says Bob Pappalardo, of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California (press release). “It’s an unsettling combination of strangeness yet similarity to Earth.”

Image: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona/DLR

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