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This moon of Saturn has a diameter of 3,200 miles, an atmospheric pressure
of 1.5 times that of Earth. The atmosphere is mostly nitrogen and
methane.
(SFC, 4/898, p.A8)
1997
Oct 13, The Cassini spacecraft was scheduled to be
launched aboard a Titan rocket from Cape Canaveral for a trip to end in
2004 at Saturn. It will carry the Huygens probe to be deployed on the
Saturn moon Titan.
(SFEC, 10/5/97, Z1 p.1)
1997 Oct 15, NASA launched the
Cassini spacecraft destined to arrive at Saturn on July 1, 2004.
(SFC,10/16/97, p.A3)
1998 Apr 8, It was reported that
Europe’s Infrared Space Observatory discovered water around stars and
planets. Water vapor in the atmosphere of Titan was reported.
(SFC, 4/898, p.A8)
2004 Nov 6, The Cassini spacecraft
will launch its Huygens probe onto Titan.
(SFEC, 10/5/97, Z1 p.4)
2005 Jan 15, The European space
probe Huygens landed on Saturn's moon Titan, sending back images of
what scientists were calling the strangest landscape in the solar
system. Pictures showed a pale orange surface covered by a thin haze of
methane and what appears to be a methane sea complete with islands and
a mist-shrouded coastline.
(AP, 1/15/05)
2007 Mar 13, Scientists reported
the discovery of what appear to be sea-size bodies of liquid, probably
methane or ethane, on the surface of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, with
one about as big as Montana.
(AP, 3/13/07)
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