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Saturn's moon reveals its secrets
Saturn's moon reveals its secrets
http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/9/11/18/1 30 November 2005 Europe's Huygens probe has made the first direct study of Saturn's largest moon Titan and its atmosphere. The probe landed on Titan in January after being released from its parent Cassini spacecraft on Christmas day 2004. The new data -- published by seven international research teams in Nature this week -- could lead to a better understanding of the frozen conditions that existed on the Earth when it was young. Titan lies ten times further away from the Sun than Earth and has never been studied directly. Previous missions like the fly-by Voyager spacecraft in 1980 and 1981 were unable to penetrate through the thick organic haze surrounding the moon. Earlier this year, the Cassini mission took remote images of Titan while orbiting Saturn using various onboard instruments. But the Huygens probe has now made the first in-situ study of the moon\u2019s atmosphere and surface using six different instruments. See: http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/9/11/18/1 |
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