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Comparing the rivers of Earth, Mars, and Titan

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

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The Implications of Titan's Atmosphere

Titan is tucked within Saturn's magnetic field for most of the time. Is this a late veneer of an atmosphere? Did it come around all of a sudden because of something in the Saturn system or inherent to Titan itself? Or has it been around for a very long time? On Earth, you have chemical weathering of rocks that can stabilize our atmosphere for billions of years and planetary thermostat.

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