New Images of Titan Baffle Astronomers
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Instruments aboard the Cassini spacecraft have sent back the most detailed images ever captured of the surface of Saturn&#39;s giant moon, Titan.
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Saturn's moon Titan is covered by "dirty" ice ridges and seas of liquid natural gas, a team of scientists said on Friday after a week of research into data from the space probe Huygens.
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Planetary scientists expect to be &quot;pleasantly bewildered&quot; tonight when the first close-up pictures of Saturn&#39;s haze-shrouded moon Titan are beamed back to Earth from NASA&#39;s Cassini spacecraft.
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PASADENA, Calif. The spacecraft Cassini has begun beaming close-ups of Saturn&#39;s giant moon Titan to Earth. The first image was a low-resolution scene of part of Titan&#39;s disk covered in hydrocarbon haze.
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Scientists say the Cassini spacecraft is sending back evidence that Saturn's planet-size moon Titan has some familiar features, but that it still remains one of the strangest worlds.
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Saturn&#39;s mysterious moon Titan remained much of a mystery despite a close reconnaissance by the Cassini spacecraft. Pictures taken through the thick, hazy atmosphere as Cassini
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This view from Cassini&#39;s second close flyby of Titan on Dec. 13, 2004 shows bright material within the large dark region west of Xanadu.
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Cassini has snapped an image of the Huygens probe it has just despatched to study Titan, Saturn&#39;s largest moon. The image, taken some 12 hours after release, shows the 2.7m-wide robot lab moving away from its mothership.
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After staying up much of the night analyzing the first close-up images of Titan&#39;s smog-shrouded surface, groggy scientists acknowledged yesterday that they were befuddled
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Scientists are about to get their first really close and revealing look at Titan, the invitingly mysterious giant moon of Saturn.
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The first pictures of Saturn's moon Titan have intrigued scientists, who say Titan may resemble Earth early in its development.
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The Cassini spacecraft's close flyby of Saturn's mysterious moon Titan this week revealed clouds that will give clues to its weather, but the pass left scientists still puzzled about its surface.
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Scientists identify in images the area of Saturn's moon Titan where the Huygens probe touched down.
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The first close-up pictures of Titan, one of the most enigmatic bodies in the solar system, parted the veil of its smoggy atmosphere Wednesday but managed to deepen questions about the Saturnian moon&#39;s icy surface.
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JPL -- New views of two of Saturn&#39;s moons, Titan and Tethys, represent the most detailed look at these moons to date and show a sharp contrast between them -- one is foggy and one is cratered.
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LOS ANGELES Saturn&#39;s moon Titan has some familiar-looking features, but scientists say most of it looks &quot;very alien.&quot;.
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Data sent back by the Huygens space  probe from the Saturnian moon Titan show a frozen, orange world  shrouded in a methane-rich haze with dark ice rocks dotting a  riverbed-like surface the consistency of wet sand, scientists  said on Saturday.