No ocean on Titan? New research reveals slushy ice world

View larger. | Artist’s illustration of the Cassini spacecraft during a flyby of Titan. Previous analysis of data from Cassini suggested Titan had a global ocean of water beneath its icy surface. But new research suggests the ocean on Titan is really layers of ice and slush, with small pockets of warm water. Image via NASA/ JPL-Caltech.

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• Saturn’s moon Titan has a subsurface global water ocean … or so scientists have thought.