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What if a portal is opened from The Surface of Lake Superior to The Surface of Kraken Mare on Titan?
You will partly drain Lake Superior into Kraken Mare. Until the ice mound plugs the portal.
The atmospheric pressure on Titan is 150% that of Earth.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Titan
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Daily eclipses for a moon orbiting a gas giant?
I will use the term exomoon to described a moon in another star system orbiting an exoplanet in another star system, and refer to Earth's moon as The Moon.
If a large, habitable exomoon of a giant ...
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