Friday, February 18, 2005

Titan's Features Emerge From Haze

NASA scientists unraveled more of the mystery shrouding Saturn's largest moon this week when the space agency's Cassini orbiter beamed home some of the clearest photos to date of Titan's surface.
The photos were taken by Cassini's optical camera and radar mapping instrument Tuesday, during the spacecraft's third close flyby of Titan. One of the radar images shows what seems to be a crater or ringed basin bigger than the island of Sri Lanka. Astronomers believe the 273-mile-wide depression could have been formed by a massive comet or asteroid strike.

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