Icy moons in the solar system hide so much liquid water, they make Earth look like a desert planet
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- Earth seems to have a huge water supply, but it's relatively dry compared to other ocean worlds.
- Jupiter's ice-covered moon Europa has about twice the volume of Earth's liquid water.
- Ganymede, the largest moon of Jupiter, may have the largest ocean in the solar system.
Earth seems drenched with water from mountaintop to ocean bottom.
But our home planet is a desert compared to some places the solar system, both in terms of its total water volume and the amount of liquid on Earth relative to its size.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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