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====Liquid water==== {{Further|List of largest lakes and seas in the Solar System|Extraterrestrial liquid water}} Liquid water is present on Earth, covering 71% of its surface.<ref name="WSS" /> Liquid water is also occasionally present in small amounts [[Water on Mars|on Mars]].<ref>{{cite web |title=NASA Confirms Evidence That Liquid Water Flows on Today's Mars |url=https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-confirms-evidence-that-liquid-water-flows-on-today-s-mars |website=NASA |access-date=22 June 2020 |date=28 September 2015 |archive-date=28 September 2015 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20150928154622/http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-confirms-evidence-that-liquid-water-flows-on-today-s-mars/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Scientists believe liquid water is present in the Saturnian moons of [[Enceladus (moon)|Enceladus]], as a 10-kilometre thick ocean approximately 30–40 kilometers below Enceladus' south polar surface,<ref name="NASA-20140403">{{cite web |last1=Platt |first1=Jane |last2=Bell |first2=Brian |title=NASA Space Assets Detect Ocean inside Saturn Moon |url=http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2014-103 |date=3 April 2014 |website=[[NASA]] |access-date=3 April 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140403235224/http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2014-103 |archive-date=3 April 2014 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="SCI-20140404">{{cite journal |last1=Iess |first1=L. |last2=Stevenson |first2=D. J. |last3=Parisi |first3=M. |last4=Hemingway |first4=D. |last5=Jacobson |first5=R.A. |last6=Lunine |first6=Jonathan I. |last7=Nimmo |first7=F. |last8=Armstrong |first8=J. W. |last9=Asmar |first9=S. W. |last10=Ducci |first10=M. |last11=Tortora |first11=P. |title=The Gravity Field and Interior Structure of Enceladus |date=4 April 2014 |journal=[[Science (journal)|Science]] |volume=344 |number=6179 |pages=78–80 |doi=10.1126/science.1250551 |bibcode=2014Sci...344...78I |pmid=24700854|s2cid=28990283 |url=https://authors.library.caltech.edu/45462/7/Iess-SM.pdf |access-date=14 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171202120709/https://authors.library.caltech.edu/45462/7/Iess-SM.pdf |archive-date=2 December 2017 |url-status=live }}</ref> and [[Titan (moon)|Titan]], as a subsurface layer, possibly mixed with [[ammonia]].<ref>{{Cite journal |url=http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2013/pdf/2454.pdf |bibcode=2013LPI....44.2454D |author1=Dunaeva, A.N. |author2=Kronrod, V.A. |author3=Kuskov, O.L. |title=Numerical Models of Titan's Interior with Subsurface Ocean |journal=44th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2013) |issue=1719 |page=2454 |year=2013 |access-date=23 March 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140323033113/http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2013/pdf/2454.pdf |archive-date=23 March 2014 |url-status=live}}</ref> Jupiter's moon [[Europa (moon)|Europa]] has surface characteristics which suggest a subsurface liquid water ocean.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://people.msoe.edu/~tritt/sf/europa.life.html |title=Possibility of Life on Europa |last=Tritt |first=Charles S. |access-date=10 August 2007 |publisher=Milwaukee School of Engineering |date=2002 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070609150109/http://people.msoe.edu/~tritt/sf/europa.life.html |archive-date=9 June 2007}}</ref> Liquid water may also exist on Jupiter's moon [[Ganymede (moon)|Ganymede]] as a layer sandwiched between high pressure ice and rock.<ref>Dunham, Will. (3 May 2014) [http://in.reuters.com/article/us-space-ganymede-idINKBN0DJ00H20140503 Jupiter's moon Ganymede may have 'club sandwich' layers of ocean | Reuters] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140503100145/http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/05/03/us-space-ganymede-idINKBN0DJ00H20140503 |date=3 May 2014 }}. In.reuters.com. Retrieved on 28 September 2015.</ref>
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