Titan Probe Drops Into 'Creme Brulee'-Like Surface
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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.
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Nearing the goal of its seven-year voyage, a European space probe on Friday closed in on Saturn's largest moon &#151; Titan &#151; on a mission to explore its mysterious surface and hazy atmosphere, believed to resemble that of a younger Earth.
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The European-built space probe Huygens entered the atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, on Friday, sending back indications it was alive and well and leaving scientists eager for its first research data.
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The Cassini spacecraft hurtled toward a Christmas Eve mission to release a probe that will plunge through the smoggy atmosphere of Saturn's mysterious moon Titan.
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PASADENA, Calif.  - The European-built space probe  Huygens landed on Saturn's largest moon, Titan, on Friday,  sending back indications it was alive and well and leaving  scientists eager for its first research data.
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A flyby by a Nasa unmanned space probe has revealed evidence of "widespread" volcanism on the planet Mercury.
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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.
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The surface of Saturn&#39;s moon Titan may be covered by thick drifts of combustible organic &quot;snow&quot; floating on lakes of liquid methane or water and ammonia ice flows, NASA (news - web sites) scientists said on Friday.
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TITAN, the most mysterious of Saturn&#39;s moons, might surrender many of its secrets when the Cassini space probe makes its closest approach yet this week.
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WASHINGTON - The first radar images of Titan, the cloud-shrouded moon of Saturn, revealed a relatively young, active surface, NASA said Friday (Oct. 29).
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THE surface of Saturn&#39;s moon Titan may be covered by thick drifts of combustible organic &quot;snow&quot; floating on lakes of liquid methane or water and ammonia ice flows, NASA scientists said on Friday.
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On January 14, 2005, the Huygens probe will try to descend to the surface of Saturn&#39;s largest moon, Titan--a biochemically rich moon dominated by hydrocarbons like methane and ethane.
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The surface of Saturn's moon Titan may be covered by thick drifts of combustible organic "snow" floating on lakes of liquid methane or water and ammonia ice flows, NASA scientists said on Friday.
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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 Huygens probe has been successfully sending data as it approaches the surface of Saturn's moon Titan.
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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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New pictures of Saturn's moon Titan and other observations show that the Huygens spacecraft landed on a spongy surface like wet sand or soft clay, possibly saturated with liquid methane.