Titan clouds seen to come and go
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Scientists now have their first direct evidence of changing weather patterns on Titan, Saturn's largest moon.
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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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(NASA/JPL) Cassini&#39;s second close flyby of Titan completes a &#39;before&#39; and &#39;after&#39; look at the fuzzy moon and provides the first direct evidence of changing weather patterns in the skies over Titan.
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For the first time in the history of astronomy, scientists are about to glimpse the mysterious surface of Titan, Saturn&#39;s haze-shrouded moon.
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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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In late afternoon, the wispy clouds part. For the first time I discern the distant domes, tiny and white, on the peak of blue-grey Mauna Kea, but a heavy cloud hovers above. Dr. Hammel tells me that once the sun sets, this cloud will cool, sink and wrap the telescopes in its fog, unless &#150; there&#39;s a small possibility &#150; the cloud sinks all the way beneath the summit, down below the telescopes. Despite the bleak predictions in all the weather forecasts for tonight, I begin to hope that we&#39;ll finally get some data.
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Description: We take a trip out to Saturn&#39;s moon Titan. The Cassini space probe paid a close call to the moon this week, and sent back some pictures of the mist-covered planet that have scientists puzzled.
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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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The prospect of the Huygens probe landing on a hard, soft or liquid surface when it lands on Titan next January still remain following further analysis of data taken during the Cassini mother ship&#39;s closest encounter with Saturn&#39;s largest moon during its
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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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NASA&#39;S Cassini space-probe has sent back some stunning images from its close encounter with Titan, one of the moon&#39;s of the giant ringed planet Saturn.
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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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NASA investigators now have the most detailed pictures ever taken of Titan. But the images can't penetrate the mystery that surrounds the Saturnian moon. By Amit Asaravala.
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The Cassini spacecraft is heading for its first close encounter with Saturn&#39;s moon Titan tomorrow. University of Arizona scientists on the mission say Cassini will get its first real glimpse of Titan surface
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Cassini's Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS) has detected what appears to be a massive ethane cloud surrounding Titan's north pole. The cloud might be snowing ethane snowflakes into methane lakes below.
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PASADENA, Calif. Scientists don&#39;t know what to make of new close-up images of Saturn&#39;s giant moon Titan. Pictures taken by the European-US Cassini spacecraft show distinct dark and bright areas -- but scientists
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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.