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Scientists were excited to discover a new site so rich in natural gas deposits, it makes Brazil’s an after-fart.

Just one little catch, though: the whole thing’s in Saturn’s moon Titan.

“It’s really just kind of a fun fact,” planetary scientist Ralph Lorenz with Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory told Discovery News.

Lorenz and colleagues calculated the amount of liquid hydrocarbons on Titan using radar data gathered from the orbiting Cassini spacecraft. With about 20 percent of the moon mapped, scientists have found several hundred lakes and seas dotting Titan’s surface.

Extrapolating from lake depths on Earth, the researchers estimate several of the lakes on Titan each contain more than the total amount of natural gas on Earth, estimated to be about 130 billion tons. That means the orange moon has hundreds of times more liquid hydrocarbons than all the known oil and natural gas reserves on Earth.

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