Cassini Images Mammoth Cloud Engulfing Titan's North Pole

February 1, 2007 A giant cloud half the size of the United States has been imaged on Saturn's moon Titan by the Cassini spacecraft. The cloud may be responsible for the material that fills the lakes discovered last year by Cassini's radar instrument.

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Huygens’s second landing anniversary – the surprises continue

12 January 2007   Two years ago, planetary scientists across the world watched as Europe and the US did something amazing. The Huygens descent module drifted down through the hazy atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan, beaming its data back to Earth via the Cassini mothership. Today, Huygens's data are still continuing to surprise researchers.

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Titan has liquid lakes!

3 January 2007   This week, scientists reported in Nature the definitive evidence of the presence of lakes filled with liquid methane on Saturn’s moon Titan.

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