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  • Now, scientists analyzing data from NASA's Galileo spacecraft have found ice blocks on Europa's surface that suggest an interaction between the moon's icy shell and a lake-like body of water under the surface, Discovery reports.

    Europa Water: Scientists Find Evidence Of Lakes On Jupiter's Moon (PHOTOS, VIDEO) 2011

  • ETA 1: WTF is with all they little lake-like 'holes' in Florida?

    mikandra: Florida anyone? mikandra 2010

  • ETA 1: WTF is with all they little lake-like 'holes' in Florida?

    Florida anyone? mikandra 2010

  • Using an instrument on NASA's Cassini orbiter, they discovered that a lake-like feature in the south polar region of Saturn's moon, Titan, is truly wet.

    NASA Watch: Keith Cowing: July 2008 Archives 2008

  • Using an instrument on NASA's Cassini orbiter, they discovered that a lake-like feature in the south polar region of Saturn's moon, Titan, is truly wet.

    NASA Watch: Space Science News: July 2008 Archives 2008

  • And what typically should be a very smooth and tranquil lake-like setting is what looks to be a pretty angry ocean as Ike churns its way towards Galveston.

    CNN Transcript Sep 12, 2008 2008

  • Instead of a rough sea or a river with currents, it will take place in a lake-like rowing basin built especially for the Games.

    A Bruising New Olympic Sport 2008

  • It covers a very large extent of ground, which gently slopes upwards from the lake-like river, and is backed by the Mountain, a precipitous hill,

    The Englishwoman in America 2007

  • The large town of Halifax sloped down to a lake-like harbour, about two miles wide, dotted with islands; and ranges of picturesque country spangled with white cottages lay on the other side.

    The Englishwoman in America 2007

  • And slowly lightened the clear eastern sky, and the crescent moon and stars disappeared one by one, and gradually the low pine-clad hills of Nova Scotia stood out in dark relief against the light, when, all of a sudden, “like a glory, the broad sun” rose behind the purple moorlands, and soon hill and town and lake-like bay were bathed in the cold glow of a winter sunrise.

    The Englishwoman in America 2007

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