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Tango01

28 Dec 2019 8:29 p.m. PST

"Humans have been mapping other worlds since we peered at the Moon with our eyes and gazed at Mars through our earliest telescopes. But it can be a painstaking process. That's especially true for places that are very distant and very shrouded by their atmospheres.

Saturn's moon Titan was discovered by Christiaan Huygens in 1655, although it only gained its current moniker in 1847, thanks to the suggestion of John Herschel for using the names of pre-Olympian gods of Greek myth, whose were, collectively, the Titans.

But with a thick, optically opaque atmosphere Titan resisted much closer scrutiny until the Cassini mission arrived around Saturn in 2004…."
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