Cassini nears 100th Titan flyby with a look back

Thursday, March 6, 2014 - 09:00 in Astronomy & Space

(Phys.org) —Ten years ago, we knew Titan as a fuzzy orange ball about the size of Mercury. We knew it had a nitrogen atmosphere—the only known world with a thick nitrogen atmosphere besides Earth. But what might lie beneath the hazy air was still just a guess.

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