After Seven Years and Two Billion Miles, Probe Draws Near to Titan
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SPACE SCIENTISTS are anxiously waiting for the moment, early tomorrow morning, when a small package is sent on its way to Titan, one of the moons of Saturn.
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The study of Titan, Saturn&#39;s largest moon, will be one of the Cassini spacecraft&#39;s central goals. The probe will execute 45 close flybys during its four-year mission, with the first Tuesday morning.
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NASA&#39;s Cassini orbiter has had its closest encounter with Saturn&#39;s smog-shrouded moon, Titan, but scientists must wait to see their first glimpse of its icy surface.
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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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Pictures snapped by the Titan probe and a low, whooshing sound picked up by an on-board microphone drew gasps and applause from scientists, 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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Scientists are about to get their first really close and revealing look at Titan, the invitingly mysterious giant moon of Saturn. The Cassini spacecraft is
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NASA&#39;s Cassini orbiter had its closest encounter with Saturn&#39;s smog-shrouded moon, Titan, on Tuesday, but scientists must wait to see their first glimpse of its icy surface.
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It is an encounter that planetary scientists and space science enthusiasts have been waiting for as the Cassini-Huygens Probe darts into the upper atmosphere of the Saturn moon Titan on Tuesday afternoon October 26th.
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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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Finally, it was Europe's turn to take a giant leap into an unexplored world. After decades of running third in space headlines behind the U.S. and Soviet-Russian programs, the 15-country ESA last week captured center stage with the successful landing of the Huygens probe on Saturn's largest moon, Titan, after a seven-year voyage.
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A pale orange landscape topped by a thin crust appears in images beamed back 900 million miles by the Titan probe. Instruments picked up a low, rushing sound, possibly indicating winds.
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The Huygens probe has been successfully sending data as it approaches the surface of Saturn's moon Titan.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Dec. 25 -- More than 750 million miles from Earth, the European Space Agency's Huygens probe was released from NASA's Cassini orbiter Christmas Eve and placed on a collision course with Titan, one of Saturn's many moons.
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A space probe headed for Saturn&#39;s largest moon, Titan, is nearing the end of its two billion mile journey, reports Nic Fleming.
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In a few weeks, after a seven-year journey across the solar system, a robot spacecraft bristling with British instruments will plunge into the atmosphere of the mysterious, methane-shrouded world of Titan.
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It&#39;s an encounter that everyone has been waiting for: on Tuesday, October 26, Cassini-Huygens will streak past Titan in the mission&#39;s first close encounter with Saturn&#39;s largest moon.
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PASADENA, Calif.  - The world got its first look  at the surface of the Saturnian moon Titan on Friday when  pictures from the European space probe Huygens showed a  possibly rocky surface with "drainage channels" for liquids.