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In 1980, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft tried to take close up images of the natural features of Titan's landscape, but was unable to penetrate the thick clouds.

CASSINI SOLSTICE MISSION: IMAGES - NASA - HOME

Tethys is on the right of the image, below the rings. Smaller Enceladus is on the Titan Flyby (T-84): Radar Maps Titan's Surface

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CASSINI-HUYGENS MISSION TO SATURN AND TITAN

NASA homepage for the Cassini mission and Huygens Titan probe. Detailed information, multimedia, teachers and kids sections, and status updates. Includes information

TITAN IMAGES

Titan. This is the first coloured view of Titan's surface, following processing to add reflection spectra data, gives a better indication of the actual colour of the

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Cassini Spots Tiny Moon, Begins to Tilt Orbit. NASA's Cassini spacecraft beams back closest images of Methone as it approaches Saturn's largest moon, Titan.

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NASA.gov brings you images, videos and interactive features from the unique perspective of Titan's Arrow-Shaped Storm Saturn's Moon Helene Craggy Craters on Rhea

AMAZING PHOTOS: TITAN, SATURN'S LARGEST MOON SATURN & TITAN

See stunning photos of the cloud-covered Titan from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.

NASA - TITAN'S SURFACE REVEALED

Piercing the ubiquitous layer of smog enshrouding Titan, these images from the Cassini visual and infrared mapping spectrometer reveals an exotic surface covered with

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Cassini Sees Titan Cooking Up Smog

A paper published this week using data from NASA's Cassini mission describes in more detail than ever before how aerosols in the highest part of the atmosphere are kick-started at Saturn's moon Titan. Scientists want to understand aerosol formation at Titan because it could help predict the behavior of smoggy aerosol layers on Earth.

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This image shows the first flash of sunlight reflected off a lake on Saturn's moon Titan. The glint off a mirror-like surface is known as a specular reflection. This kind of glint was detected by the visual and infrared mapping spectrometer (VIMS) on NASA's Cassini spacecraft on July 8, 2009. It confirmed the presence of liquid in the moon's northern hemisphere, where lakes are more numerous and larger than those in the southern hemisphere. Scientists using VIMS had confirmed the presence of liquid in Ontario Lacus, the largest lake in the southern hemisphere, in 2008 [Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona/DLR]"

According to the new paper, published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Titan's trademark reddish-brown smog appears to begin with solar radiation on molecules of nitrogen and methane in the ionosphere, which creates a soup of negative and positive ions. Collisions among the organic molecules and the ions help the molecules grow into bigger and more complex aerosols. Lower down in the atmosphere, these aerosols bump into each other and coagulate, and at the same time interact with other, neutral particles. Eventually, they form the heart of the physical processes that rain hydrocarbons on Titan's surface and form lakes, channels and dunes.

The paper was led by Panayotis Lavvas, a Cassini participating scientist based at the University of Reims, Champagne-Ardenne, France. The team analyzed data from three Cassini instruments -- the plasma spectrometer, the ion and neutral mass spectrometer, and the radio and plasma wave science experiment. They compared their results to those obtained by ESA's Huygens probe on its descent through the Titan atmosphere in 2005 and found they were compatible.

The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. JPL is a division of Caltech. For more information on Cassini, visit http://www.nasa.gov/cassini and http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov.

"Source: NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory [February 04, 2013]"