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Nature 438, 538-539 (1 December 2005) | doi:10.1038/438538a

Titan: tapping the flood of data

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The first analyses of the Huygens mission to Titan are published this week. Mark Peplow charts the satellite's transition from fogbound moon to familiar landscape, and finds out why scientists long to return.

It is easy to forget that just over a year ago, Titan was one of the most mysterious objects in our Solar System. Larger than the planet Mercury, Saturn's largest satellite is the only moon known to have a dense atmosphere.

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