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| Titan's Strange Surface |
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07/03/04 |
| New images and spectroscopic data of the surface of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, have puzzled NASA scientists. Light areas once thought to be pure water ice are instead regions likely contaminated by organic materials. |
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| Titanic Thinking in Pictures |
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07/02/04 |
| Robotic missions have returned images from the surfaces of Venus, Mars and even asteroids, but when the Huygens probe tries to capture topography from Saturn's largest moon, Titan, the landscape may rival science fiction in the descriptions of how exotic another world might look. |
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| Titan's Big Future in Plastics |
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05/23/04 |
| Titan, Saturn's hydrocarbon-rich moon, appears to host oil lakes and the raw materials for making organics. Those organics may serve as precursors to plastics, or possibly simple biomolecules. |
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| Titan, the Enigmatic Moon |
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04/18/04 |
| New ground-based observations of Titan have identified three bright atmospheric regions. These spots may help explain what this oil-rich moon may offer the latest probe in just a few months when Cassini begins to orbit around Saturn. |
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| Smog Warning, Titan |
| Topic: Titan |
10/28/03 |
| The chemistry of Saturn's moon, Titan, has long fascinated planetary scientists, particularly since it was not only discovered to have a thick atmosphere, but also one rich in organics thought to have played important roles in Earth's early biochemistry. Is Titan's chemistry biochemical? |
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| Titan: Biological Birthplace? |
| Topic: Titan |
06/02/02 |
| Saturn's giant moon Titan, cloaked in thick nitrogen atmosphere with hydrocarbons, provide a laboratory in sky for scientists. |
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| Titan: Biological Birthplace? |
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10/19/01 |
| Saturn's giant moon Titan, cloaked in a thick nitrogen atmosphere laced with hydrocarbons, could provide a laboratory in the sky. |
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