Lifting the Veil on Titan
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LOS ANGELES -- The NASA spacecraft Cassini, which is carrying a European Space Agency probe, cut off communications with controllers on Monday as it prepared to peer beneath a veil of smog shrouding Saturn&#39;s moon, Titan.
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The European-made space probe Huygens headed for a historic up-close encounter with Titan, the only celestial body of the Solar system with an atmosphere resembling that of Earth, after successfully separating from the US spacecraft Cassini.
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DARMSTADT, Germany -- Pictures snapped by the Titan probe and a low, whooshing sound picked up by an on-board microphone drew gasps and applause from scientists yesterday, as the mission to Saturn's moon continued its breathtaking revelations from more than 900 million miles across the solar system.
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The Cassini spacecraft is set to reveal the closest views yet of Saturn's moon Titan, when it makes a close pass of the satellite on Tuesday.
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The Cassini probe got the first close-up photos of Saturn&#39;s murky moon Titan on Tuesday and began sending them back to Earth. This image is one of the closest ever taken of Saturn&#39;s hazy moon Titan.
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The Cassini spacecraft will swoop near Saturn&#39;s mysterious moon Titan today, revealing features on the surface in the best detail yet.
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Saturn&#39;s mysterious moon Titan held onto its secrets despite a close reconnaissance by the Cassini spacecraft&#39;s cameras and instruments.
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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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Scientists are none the wiser as to what awaits the Huygens space probe on Saturn&#39;s moon Titan when it lands, despite a close pass by its mothership.
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When the Cassini spacecraft&#39;s Huygens probe parachutes to the surface of the Saturn moon Titan on Jan. 14, it could splash into a lake, burrow into a powdery drift or slam onto rock-hard ice.
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The Cassini spacecraft&#39;s close flyby of Saturn&#39;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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A giant cloud half the size of the United States has been imaged on Saturn's moon Titan by the Cassini spacecraft. The cloud may be responsible for the material that fills the lakes discovered last year by Cassini's radar instrument.
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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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NASA scientists are poring over the latest pictures unveiling Saturn&#39;s mysterious moon Titan. The images show distinct dark and bright surface areas.
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GET AN EXTRA STURDY UMBRELLA: Scientists studying data from a European space probe say Titan, Saturn's largest moon, apparently is lashed regularly by rain made of liquid methane that erodes the surface.
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The Cassini-Huygens spacecraft on Tuesday returned the first close-up glimpses of Titan, one of Saturn&#39;s moons. Mission controllers at NASA&#39;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena unveiled ghostly images from the flyby Tuesday night.
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The solar system&#39;s smoggiest orb appears to have landscapes both foreign and familiar, say geologists who are sorting through the first up-close peek at Saturn&#39;s planet-sized moon Titan.