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The Cassini Orbiter spacecraft first skimmed through the tenuousupper atmosphere of Titan on 26 October 2004. This moon of Saturnis unique in our solar system, with a dense nitrogen atmospherethat is cold enough in places to rain methane, the feedstockfor the atmospheric chemistry that produces hydrocarbons, nitrilecompounds, and Titan's orange haze. The data returned from thisflyby supply new information on the magnetic field and plasmaenvironment around Titan, expose new facets of the dynamicsand chemistry of Titan's atmosphere, and provide the first glimpsesof what appears to be a complex, fluid-processed, geologicallyyoung Titan surface.
Solar System Exploration Division, NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA. E-mail: paul.r.mahaffy{at}nasa.gov
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