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Saturn's moon Mimas looks like a dead, cratered rock — its surface is so inert that scientists assumed it was frozen solid — but in 2024 astronomers confirmed a global ocean hidden beneath the ice, formed just 5 to 15 million years ago - Space DailySpace Daily · Fri, 07 Aug 2026 13:34:18 GMTCassini bounced radio waves off Titan’s three largest seas and found their open surfaces mirror-smooth, with roughness no greater than 3.3 millimetres RMS, while rougher estuaries hinted that methane-rich rivers were entering more ethane-rich seas - Space DailySpace Daily · Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:50:07 GMTHuygens took around 700 pictures on its way down through Titan in 2005, and we have half of them, because a single command was missing from Cassini's instructions — one of the two radio channels was never switched on, and roughly 350 images were los - Space DailySpace Daily · Fri, 31 Jul 2026 07:00:00 GMTCassini was deliberately flown into Saturn in September 2017 while still working perfectly, because the alternative was letting a dying spacecraft carrying Earth bacteria eventually drift into Enceladus, a moon with a liquid ocean and hydrothermal vents on its fl - Space DailySpace Daily · Tue, 28 Jul 2026 07:00:00 GMT