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Saturn's moon Titan may have a 6-mile-thick crust of methane ice — could life be under there?
Methane clathrate, or "methane hydrate," is a solid compound in which a large amount of methane is trapped within the ...
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Saturn's moon Titan has insulating methane-rich crust up to six miles thick
And constraining the thickness of the methane clathrate ice crust indicates that Titan's interior is likely warm—not cold, rigid, and inactive as previously thought. "Methane clathrate is ...