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Earth isn’t the only world in our solar system with an ocean! In honor of #ArchivesUnderTheSea, here are a few of our favorite extraterrestrial oceans in a thread ⬇

Saturn’s largest moon Titan is thought to have a large liquid ocean trapped under its outer layer of ice. So, what’s “Under the Sea”? Methane, apparently. Scientists believe this ocean stores and releases the methane necessary to resupply Titan’s methane-dominant atmosphere.

Scientists point to bright spots on the surface of the dwarf planet Ceres as evidence of a subsurface ocean. These bright spots are actually reflective salt deposits, likely left behind after water from the briny ocean made its way to the planet’s surface and evaporated.

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Thanks to this awesome theme chosen by @USNatArchives, I pulled together a brief thread of neat Catholic maritime historical vignettes

Check it out! 🧵

1⃣ First Mass on a submerged nuclear sub, 1958

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https://twitter.com/USNatArchives/status/1664604646000787457

2⃣ Rev. John Francis Laboon, SJ appointed as first naval chaplain for a US nuclear missile submarine, 1959

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