Titan's weather resembles Earth's, but runs on methane instead of water (www.earth.com)

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Methane is practically odorless, and certainly doesn't smell like farts. Ethyl mercaptan is added to natural gas explicitly for leak detection purposes.

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