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Titan is the only moon in the solar system that has its own atmosphere
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The Cassini spacecraft is going to make the closest approach flight to the surface of Saturn's moon Titan this evening (Tuesday) at 18.44:1,200 p.m. Cassini will pass only XNUMX km from Titan's surface.
Attempts to land on Titan's icy surface have so far been frustrated by the thick orange haze that covers the moon's surface.
Scientists hope today's pass will be close enough for Cassini's radar to penetrate Titan's dense haze layer.
"Titan has a primitive atmosphere that has not changed for 4.6 billion years. Titan gives us the chance for cosmic time travel.” says Toby Evans, one of the researchers working on the Cassini project at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
In December, the Huygens spacecraft, which is hitchhiking on Cassini, is supposed to be released from it and enter Titan's atmosphere in January 2005. The spacecraft is supposed to transmit data during its guided descent and perform science missions on the surface, if it survives.
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