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Veil Lifts on Titan's Great Secrets

A composite of several Cassini images shows Titan’s varied surface, including possibly a remnant of an old impact basin (large circular feature near the center of Titan’s disk). Mountain ranges to the southeast of the circular feature, and the dark linear feature to the northwest of the circular impact scar may be evidence of past tectonic activity.

Titan is the second-largest moon in the solar system, and the only one known to have clouds and a dense atmosphere. Scientists have been keen to study the cloud-covered world because of its Earth-like qualities.

 


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