There’s water, water everywhere in National Geographic News’s most popular space coverage of 2009: A probe proved there’s water on the moon, a Mars lander’s leg got all wet, fishlike life may swim a Jupiter moon’s seas, and more.

National Geographic News’s most popular coverage of 2009 scientific finds is swarming with megamouth sharks, giant snakes, a transparent-headed fish, “Jacques Cousteau” clouds , and rare species rescued from obscurity—then eaten.