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Icy Oceans Exist on Far-Off Moons. Why Aren’t They Frozen Solid? The moons orbiting Jupiter and Saturn appear to have subsurface oceans — tantalizing targets in the search for life beyond Earth. But it’s not clear why these seas exist at all.


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