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Saturday, 23 March 2013

Titan, the Largest Moon of Saturn

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Titan has an atmosphere. This can be seen faintly in the image on the left as an outline, and more clearly in the following image taken by Voyager looking back at Titan and showing sunlight scattering in the atmosphere. The atmosphere of Titan has several layers of haze. It has a pressure at the surface of 1.6 times that of Earth, and is made up primarily of nitrogen, with about a 1% concentration of methane. The...
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