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Radar pierces Titan’s thick veil of smog, revealing lakes and a large sea in the moon’s north pole region, captured by the Cassini spacecraft. Transient bright spots, “magic islands,” have been seen appearing and disappearing on Ligeia Mare. Credits: center, NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASI/USGS; left and right, NASA/ESA, T. Cornet, ESA