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PLANETARY SCIENCE: Titan Remains Mysterious With a Hint of the Familiar
Richard A. Kerr
As the Cassini spacecraft now orbiting Saturn homed in last week for its first close pass by Titan, scientists expected to glimpse reasonably familiar features, but instead they weren't sure what they were looking at.