Titan Mission Summary Box
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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 spacecraft has begun to beam close-up images of Saturn&#39;s giant moon Titan to Earth. Cassini reached the point of closest approach, about 2,000 kilometres, Tuesday morning and transmitted to NASA&#39;s deep-space network antenna in Madrid, Spain.
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The international Cassini spacecraft began beaming close-up images of Saturn&#39;s moon Titan to Earth late Tuesday. Cassini reached the point of closest approach of about 279,000
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The European-designed Huygens spacecraft has begun its 20-day descent to Saturn&#39;s satellite Titan with the aim of penetrating its thick atmosphere and unraveling the mysteries below.
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LOS ANGELES -- NASA&#39;s Cassini spacecraft on Tuesday made its closest pass yet to to Titan, Saturn&#39;s largest moon. The spacecraft took the first detailed pictures ever of the moon&#39;s surface.
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Compiled by PAUL MONTELLA Sept. 19
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im333mfg writes &quot;Tonight at 7:08pm PST, the Cassini spacecraft will be releasing the much anticipated Huygens Probe for a rendezvous with the Saturn moon Titan.
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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&#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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WASHINGTON, Feb. 27  /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The International Space Station Independent Safety Task Force's final report is now available online. The report was released simultaneously Tuesday to Congress, NASA and the public.
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The Huygens probe is on target and all set for its encounter with Titan, the mysterious large moon of Saturn. The 2.7m-wide robot lab has passed its final systems check-out and scientists
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This radar image of the surface of Saturn&#39;s moon Titan was acquired on October 26, 2004, when the Cassini spacecraft flew approximately 1,200 kilometers (745 miles) above the surface and acquired radar data for the first time.
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Summary - (Nov 8, 2004) NASA&#39;s Cassini spacecraft took this image of Titan as it sped past the moon on Oct. 26, 2004. It was taken from an altitude of 2,500 km (1,553 miles) using the spacecraft&#39;s aperture
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A US-European spacecraft is preparing to explore the planet Saturn&#39;s huge moon, Titan. The &quot;Cassini-Huygens&quot; spacecraft that has orbited the ringed planet since July is to venture within 1,200 kilometers of the cloud-covered moon on 26 October.
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Cassini-Huygens, a joint US-European mission to Saturn, has had its closest encounter yet with Titan, one of Saturn&#39;s moons. It flew to within 745 miles and beamed back the first images of the only moon in the solar system with an atmosphere.
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The European Space Agency prepares to send its Huygens probe hurtling through the smoggy atmosphere of Saturn's moon, Titan. What the probe will find on the other side is anybody's guess. By Amit Asaravala.
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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.