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Space / Solar System

Titan's Time Warp

Is Saturn's huge moon just like Earth 4 billion years ago? Scientists navigating the Cassini spacecraft for a rendezvous with smoggy Titan are betting on it

by Kathy A. Svitil

published online June 1, 2002


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